The True Nature of Bernadette (1972)
Bernadette has a yen to chuck it all and go back to nature, in this French-language Canadian film. That's just what she does after carefully leaving her wedding ring where her affluent husband, a lawyer, can see it. She has bought a farm, complete with a run-down farmhouse and a live-in cranky old man. Soon, because of the wonderful effects that her sympathy and her outsider's perspective have, her neighbors perceive great improvements in their lives. They attribute these changes to something miraculous (perhaps taking a cue from her name), and hordes of needy people descend on her farm.
Director: Gilles Carle
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Micheline Lanctôt as Bernadette |
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Donald Pilon as Thomas |
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Reynald Bouchard as Rock |
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Robert Rivard as Felicien, le maire |
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Willie Lamothe as Antoine, le postier |
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Maurice Beaupré as Octave |
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Ernest Guimond as Moise |
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Julien Lippé as Auguste |
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Claudette Delorimier as Madeleine |
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Pierre Valcour as Courchesne |
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Yvon Barrette as St-Luc |
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Yves Allaire as St-Marc |
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Yannick Therrien as Yannick |
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Gilles Lajoie as Napoléon |
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Jacques Thisdale as Taxi Driver (uncredited) |
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Jean-Marie Lemieux as Lamothe, Agronome (uncredited) |
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Paul Gauthier as Déménageur (uncredited) |
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Reine France as (uncredited) |
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Robert Desroches as Agriculteur (uncredited) |
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Angèle Coutu as (uncredited) |
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René Caron as Agriculteur (uncredited) |
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Yvon Leroux as Agriculteur (uncredited) |
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Jacques Bilodeau as Agriculteur (uncredited) |
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Rolland Bédard as Agriculteur (uncredited) |
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Claude Préfontaine as Enquêteur au service du bien-être sociale (uncredited) |
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Francine Grimaldi as Journaliste (uncredited) |
| Directing | Gilles Carle | Director |
| Writing | Gilles Carle | Writer |
| Sound | Pierre Florent Brault | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Pierre Fauteux | Sound Effects |
| Sound | Marcel Pothier | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Pierre Leroux | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Austin Grimaldi | Sound Mixer |
| Camera | René Verzier | Director of Photography |
| Production | Pierre Lamy | Co-Producer |
