--- title: 'The Torrent (2012)' type: 'film' director: 'Simon Lavoie' released: '2012-01-01' runtime_minutes: 152 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'Canada' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-torrent-2012' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2458606/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Torrent (2012) 2012 · 152 min · Drama · Canada ## Synopsis The Torrent is a Canadian drama film, directed by Simon Lavoie and released in 2012. An adaptation of Anne Hébert's novella Le Torrent, the film centres on the life of François, a man who was raised by his devoutly religious and abusive mother Claudine. Left deaf when his refusal to obey her demand that he enter the seminary to become a Catholic priest led Claudine to hit him on the head, he has continued to live in rural isolation, and struggles to establish human connection when he purchases Amica, a woman being sold into slavery who is eerily similar to his mother in her youth. ## Credits - **Director:** [Simon Lavoie](https://cinepixo.com/people/simon-lavoie) - **Screenplay:** [Simon Lavoie](https://cinepixo.com/people/simon-lavoie) - **Producer:** [Jacques Blain](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-blain), [Sylvain Corbeil](https://cinepixo.com/people/sylvain-corbeil), [Nancy Grant](https://cinepixo.com/people/nancy-grant), [Marie-Dominique Michaud](https://cinepixo.com/people/marie-dominique-michaud) - **Director of Photography:** [Mathieu Laverdière](https://cinepixo.com/people/mathieu-laverdiere) - **Editor:** [Nicolas Roy](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicolas-roy) ## Cast - [Marco Bacon](https://cinepixo.com/people/marco-bacon) - [Laurence Leboeuf](https://cinepixo.com/people/laurence-leboeuf) - [Anthony Therrien](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-therrien) as François - [Dominique Quesnel](https://cinepixo.com/people/dominique-quesnel) - [Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-andres-trelles-turgeon) as François ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-torrent-2012 Film facts: Wikidata (Q48752156); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.