Isabel (film)

Isabel
Isabel
	Film poster
Directed by	Paul Almond
Written by	Paul Almond
Produced by	Paul Almond
Starring	Geneviève Bujold; Lynden Bechervaise; Therese Cadorette;
Cinematography	Georges Dufaux
Edited by	George Appleby
Music by	Harry Freedman
Production; company	Quest Film Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	23 July 1968 (United States);
Running time	108 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English
Budget	est. $CAD300,000

Isabel is a 1968 Canadian film written, directed and produced by Paul Almond.^[2]

Synopsis

Learning of her mother's serious illness, Isabel (Geneviève Bujold) returns to her family's farm on the Gaspé Peninsula. Her mother dies before she can get there, and when her aged uncle Matthew (Gerard Parkes) asks her to stay on and help him with the farm, she reluctantly agrees. She finds herself haunted by memories of early years (domestic violence, incest and the mysterious deaths of her grandfather, who died in a freak accident, and her father and brother, who both drowned at sea) in a house full of eerie sights and sounds.

Cast

Geneviève Bujold as Isabel
Marc Strange as Jason
Gerard Parkes as Uncle Matthew
Elton Hayes as Eb
Edie Kerr as Viola
Al Waxman as Herb
Ratch Wallace as Herb's friend
Lynden Bechervaise as Herb's friend
Eric Clavering as Postmaster
Therese Cadorette as Sister Estelle
Rob Hayes as Fisherman
J. Donald Dow as Storekeeper

Reception

Isabel is the first film of Paul Almond's trilogy made with his then-wife Geneviève Bujold, it won four Canadian Film Awards, and was one of the early Canadian films to be distributed by a major Hollywood studio (Paramount Pictures).^[3]^[1]

It was featured in the Canadian Cinema television series which aired on CBC Television in 1974.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Canada Is Luring Movie Producers By VINCENT CANBY. New York Times 4 Mar 1967: 15.
^ "Isabel (1967)". BFI. Archived from the original on October 4, 2018.
^ "Isabel". Film Library Reference. 2003. Archived from the original on 2009-02-26. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
^ Corcelli, John (August 2005). "Canadian Cinema". Canadian Communications Foundation. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2010.