Between Sweet and Salt Water
(Entre le mer et l’eau douce)

Screening on Film

Directed by Michel Brault.
With Claude Gauthier, Geneviève Bujold, Paul Gauthier.
Canada, 1967, 35mm, black & white, 85 min.
French with English subtitles.
Print source: TIFF Group

Singer-songwriter Claude Gauthier stars as a young man who leaves his provincial fishing community behind to find success in the music industry. He meets and falls in love with a waitress (Bujold), but when he wins a singing contest he must reevaluate their relationship. Informed by the separatist movement in Québec, Brault’s first fiction feature is presented in a refreshingly naturalistic style.