1971 Canadian movie, the best one of all time
Rating: 17/20
Plot: A boy discovers death and sex simultaneously.
Sex and death intertwine in this coming-of-age slice-of-life, magically right at Christmas time. Sketchy characters loaf around a sketchy plot--one with moments of tradition, voyeurism, humor, tragedy, Christmas decorations, drunkenness, childhood crushes, infidelity, and barrels of nails--the film provides this completely objective look at this collective of Quebeckers. On the fringes, there's something about a strike with asbestos miners, but as far as I know, that's not mentioned at all anywhere in this.
This is apparently the greatest Canadian movie of all time, so I'm bumping it up an extra point.
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