The Heart Exposed
FrenchLe Cœur découvert
Directed byJean-Yves Laforce
Written byMichel Tremblay
Based onThe Heart Laid Bare (Le Cœur découvert) by Michel Tremblay
StarringMichel Poirier
Gilles Renaud
CinematographyJean Pierre Lefebvre
Edited byAndré Daigneault
Music byMichel-Charles Therrien
Production
company
Release date
  • August 31, 1987 (1987-08-31) (MWFF)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The Heart Exposed (French: Le Cœur découvert) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean-Yves Laforce and released in 1987.[1] Written by Michel Tremblay as an adaptation of his own novel The Heart Laid Bare (Le Cœur découvert), the film centres on the relationship between Jean-Marc (Gilles Renaud) and Mathieu (Michel Poirier), two gay men who meet and fall in love despite a ten-year age difference and the complication that Mathieu is the father of a five-year-old son.[2]

The film's cast also includes Olivier Chasse, Louisette Dussault, Amulette Garneau, Louise Rinfret, Pierre Houle and Robert Lalonde.

The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in 1987,[3] but was distributed primarily as a television film broadcast by Télévision de Radio-Canada in November.[4] It was later screened at the Frameline Film Festival in 1989, where it won the Audience Award.[5]

Thomas Waugh, writing for Cinema Canada, stated that "It is a fine pleasure to see this warmhearted little gem, not only because of positive representation of gays in this year when everyone's gushing about Night Zoo, a violent misogynist derivative film that exults in queer-baiting and queer-smashing, but because one of our finest writers has made another all-too-rare visit to the screen."[6]

References

  1. ↑ "«J'ai voulu avant tout raconter une histoire d'amour»: Jean-Yves Laforce au Festival des films du monde". Le Devoir, August 31, 1987.
  2. ↑ Mari Florence, "The Heart Exposed (Le Coeur Decouvert)". LA Weekly, July 20, 1989.
  3. ↑ Matthew Fraser, "Fellini, Rohmer to attend film festival". The Globe and Mail, August 5, 1987.
  4. ↑ Richard Martineau, "Un film très intime signé Michel Tremblay". TV Hebdo, November 20, 1987.
  5. ↑ "Big box office for gay film fest". San Francisco Examiner, June 29, 1989.
  6. ↑ Thomas Waugh, "Jean-Yves Laforce's Le Coeur découvert". Cinema Canada, December 1987.


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