Kamouraska

Canada's Great Epic

Description

Kamouraska, the most expensive Canadian film ever at the time of its release, follows the recollections of the film's heroine and narrator, Elisabeth Tassy, who reflects on her tumultuous past and a marriage to an abusive husband, who dies at the hands of her lover. Set in the 1930s, the film was based on a novel by award-winning writer Anne Hébert - who co-wrote the screenplay with Jutra - which was in turn inspired by an actual 19th-century murder.