The True Nature of Bernadette

The True Nature of Bernadette

96 mins | Drama, Comedy | May 6, 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.

The True Nature of Bernadette

96 mins | Drama, Comedy | May 6, 1972

The True Nature of Bernadette
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.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Les Productions Carle-Lamy, SDICC
Original title La vraie nature de Bernadette
Directors Gilles Carle
Writers Gilles Carle

Cast

Micheline Lanctôt

as Bernadette

Donald Pilon

as Thomas

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)