The True Nature of Bernadette
1972Bernadette 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.
Acted in
Micheline Lanctôt
as Bernadette
Donald Pilon
as Thomas
Reynald Bouchard
as Rock
Robert Rivard
as Felicien, le maire
Willie Lamothe
as Antoine, le postier
Maurice Beaupré
as Octave
Ernest Guimond
as Moise
Julien Lippé
as Auguste
Claudette Delorimier
as Madeleine
Pierre Valcour
as Courchesne
Yvon Barrette
as St-Luc
Yves Allaire
as St-Marc
Yannick Therrien
as Yannick
Gilles Lajoie
as Napoléon
Jacques Thisdale
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Jean-Marie Lemieux
as Lamothe, Agronome (uncredited)
Paul Gauthier
as Déménageur (uncredited)
Reine France
as (uncredited)
Robert Desroches
as Agriculteur (uncredited)
Angèle Coutu
as (uncredited)
René Caron
as Agriculteur (uncredited)
Yvon Leroux
as Agriculteur (uncredited)
Jacques Bilodeau
as Agriculteur (uncredited)
Rolland Bédard
as Agriculteur (uncredited)
Claude Préfontaine
as Enquêteur au service du bien-être sociale (uncredited)
Francine Grimaldi
as Journaliste (uncredited)