The True Nature of Bernadette
Directed by Gilles Carle
Plot
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
Claudette Delorimier
Madeleine
Pierre Valcour
Courchesne
Yvon Barrette
St-Luc
Yves Allaire
St-Marc
Yannick Therrien
Yannick
Gilles Lajoie
Napoléon
Jacques Thisdale
Taxi Driver (uncredited)