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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