this isn not quite the best canadian film ever and imo . i would not get off track and name 3 or 4 good . just a couple of night before i would see the bicycle thief and the highly rat italian classic and and there be some parallel . both filmmaker shoot their film in a specific time and specific place and with minimal resource in term of set and cast . and the result in both case be fascinate and a joy to watch for the realistic setting and character alone . the linger shot over face and landscape almost make this worth watch on it own . that be say and this one isn not quite in the same league a the italian classic . the movie be shoot in a frigid and barren quebec asbestos mining town . that frigidity be contrast with the warmth of the people and the eye of the filmmaker claude jutra . basically and what you get be a series of vignette that be likely nostalgic recollection of jutra not ha and ha funny but poignant and and probably sometimes difficult at the time and but now warm over with the patine of nostalgia . the movie meander while there be little tension . somewhere around half to two third way through the story begin . everyone you have meet to this point be involve and and you have get to know these character rather well while so have a little patience at the outset . the story be a good one while it will leave you think and and it involve sex and love and death and all the basic element . if you like bergman and godard and truffaut and all that kind of stuff and you would not be disappoint by this .