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The True Nature of Bernadette

May 6, 1972 · 1h 36m
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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.

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CAST

Micheline Lanctôt
Bernadette
Donald Pilon
Thomas
Reynald Bouchard
Rock
Robert Rivard
Felicien, le maire
Willie Lamothe
Antoine, le postier
Maurice Beaupré
Octave
Ernest Guimond
Moise
Julien Lippé
Auguste
Directed by Gilles Carle

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Status
Released
Original language
FR
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
SDICC, Les Productions Carle-Lamy
Country
FR, CA

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