Postière, La


Release Information: April 10, 1992; unknown/inconnu; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

Budget: Budget: $3,750,000

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Executive Producer: Yuri Yoshimura-Gagnon; Yuri Yoshimura-Gagnon; Yuri Yoshimura-Gagnon; Claude Gagnon; Claude Gagnon

93 minutes, 1991

Val Jacob is all in a fluster. Ever since Fernard, a handsome French engineer, has come to the town, the postmistress does everything in her power to conquer this beautiful Adonis. Rachel, who has all the making of Madame Pompadour, is also the driving force behind Val Jacob. She comes into her own behind the post office counter, which is the focal point of her seductive schemes. And what about Amélie, the clerk, who will stop at nothing to manipulate the mayor?

Set in 1935 in the fictional northern Quebec backwater of Val Jacob, THE POSTMISTRESS explodes any notions of quaintness we might have about rural life in the thirties. Val Jacob is a hotbed of sexual indiscretions and inventive subterfuges, all centred on the manipulations and longings of the town's postmistress, Rachel Plamondon. She will stop at nothing to enact her seductions - from opening and altering the contents of the mail, to dressing up as Madame Pompadour in order to bed the latest object of her strident affections. Her young brother, Amedée, is diagnosed as having a detached retina which will surely lead to blindness, and so he begins to practice with dark glasses and white cane. Of course, this becomes the means by which he gains access to the townspeople's most cherished secrets and intimate copulative moments, reporting all to his Machiavellian sister. Soon a plot to save the forest from the rising waters behind a proposed hydro-electric dam emerges, and the women of the town - Rachel, the madame of the brothel, the mayor's wife, and the mayor's mistress -join forces with the neighbouring native people to blackmail their dundering men into stopping the pending disaster.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

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