The Torrent (2012 film)
The Torrent is a Canadian drama film, directed by Simon Lavoie and released in 2012. An adaptation of Anne Hébert's novella Le Torrent, the film centres on the life of François, a man who was raised by his devoutly religious and abusive mother Claudine. Left deaf when his refusal to obey her demand that he enter the seminary to become a Catholic priest led Claudine to hit him on the head, he has continued to live in rural isolation, and struggles to establish human connection when he purchases Amica, a woman being sold into slavery who is eerily similar to his mother in her youth.
The film premiered at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in October 2012.
The film received six Prix Jutra nominations at the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013, for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Original Music and Best Sound.
