Tendresse Ordinaire


Release Information: April 5, 1973; Montréal (CÉGEP de Saint-Laurent); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)


Funding Sources: National Film Board

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82 minutes, 1972

Drama

Nothing seems to be more difficult to translate onto the big screen than the feeling of tenderness--the everyday tenderness between individuals during brief encounters or in profound relationships--tenderness that, with words or dreams, breaks through suffocating isolation, or with simple gestures renders innermost secrets perceptible.

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

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It is winter on Québec’s North Shore. An establishing shot, portrays a young couple in a room. He sits on a rocking chair playing the fiddle. She sits cross-legged on the floor, looking up at him. They smile at one another, the picture of...

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