Mireille Deyglun
Florentine Lacasse
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The Tin Flute (French: Bonheur d'occasion) is a 1983 Canadian drama film directed by Claude Fournier and based on the Gabrielle Roy novel of the same name. [1]
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- Claude Fournier
- 2
Featured review. 9/10. Director Claude Fournier turns Gabrielle Roy's THE TIN FLUTE into THE THIN PLOT. First of all, let me say that Gabrielle Roy's novel THE TIN FLUTE (or BONHEUR D'OCCASION) is a thematic forerunner of and, perhaps, an inspiration to Frank McCourt's ANGELA'S ASHES.
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- Drama
- Claude Fournier
- 1983-08-28
The Tin Flute. DRAMA. Adapted from Gabrielle Roy's best-selling novel The Tin Flute which was awarded the prestigious French Prix Fémina, in 1947. The film takes place in the poor neighborhood of St. Henri, in Montreal, during the Second World War.
- Claude Fournier
- 121 min
- Mireille Deyglun
In the early 1940's, Canada is a country at war and Florentine is a young woman, from a very poor family, looking for love. She meets two suitable men, a nice soldier from a good and wealthy family, and an ambitious self-centered engineer.
The film takes place in the poor neighborhood of St. Henri, in Montreal, during the Second World War. Florentine Lacasse, a young waitress, who dreams of a better life and is helping her parents get by, falls in love with Jean Lévesque, an ambitious machinist-electrician.
