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Straight for the Heart (French: À corps perdu) is a 1988 Canadian/Swiss French-language drama film. It was filmed in Montreal, It is based on Yves Navarre's novel "Kurwenal".
It was selected in the official competition of the Venice Film Festival, and the official competition at the Chicago International Film Festival.




Plot


Pierre (Habich) is a photojournalist from Montreal who's working on a reportage in Nicaragua. There he sees many people being executed and he takes photographs of them, even of the death of a young child and of his mother crying.
Back home in Montreal, his ten-year bisexual ménage à trois is over. Sarah (Tremblay) and David (Voita) have moved out, leaving Pierre wondering why. Pierre is haunted by his experiences and memories of war, and those of his relationship with Sarah and David. The memories in his mind are mostly shown in black and white movies with emotional background music. After some time stalking David and Sarah with his photo camera, he meets the young deaf-mute Quentin (Pichette). After a while, he's able to begin a new life with Quentin.




Awards


Straight for the Heart (1988)
Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, Namur, Belgium: Première Magazine First Prize, 1989
FIN Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax, Nova Scotia: Award of Excellence, 1989




Cast


Matthias Habich as Pierre Kurwenal
Johanne-Marie Tremblay as Sarah
Michel Voïta as David
Jean-François Pichette as Quentin
Kim Yaroshevskaya as Noemie
Jacqueline Bertrand as Mere
France Castel as Michele
Pierre Gobeil as Le patron
Victor Désy as Dr. Ferron
Mimi D'Estée as Dame agee
Louise Caron as Unnamed role
Louise Marleau as Unnamed role
Marilyn Gardner as Unnamed role
Albert Millaire as Unnamed role
Jean Gascon as Unnamed role




See also


List of LGBT films directed by women




References






External links


À corps perdu at IMDb
À corps perdu at AllMovie

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