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00:00 Did you ever meet Mon Oncle Antoine? Or Benoit, his nephew?
00:07 Hein? Il est qui, ou ce dingo là?
00:10 Je ne peux pas, j'ai mon père.
00:12 Est-ce qu'il est fermé?
00:13 Je ne sais pas.
00:14 Est-ce qu'il est à ta table?
00:15 Je ne l'ai pas vu non plus.
00:16 Mon Oncle Antoine ran the general store in a small Quebec mining town a few years back.
00:22 Grumpy, lovable, he lived on gin and thrived on people.
00:28 But when it came to the dead, he had to admit he was helpless.
00:32 Je ne peux pas, Benoit.
00:35 Tu vois, je ne peux pas.
00:40 Man-made mountains of asbestos dust.
00:43 This is where Benoit grew up.
00:45 One Christmas Eve, he found out a lot about life.
00:49 Love.
00:53 Sexe.
01:01 Regardez-moi ça. Hein? Tout en temps, Benoit.
01:09 Violence.
01:15 Sacrilege.
01:19 Death.
01:23 Rebellion.
01:25 Le diable les emporte.
01:27 Les anglais, Euclid, l'embaumeur, le curé, le boss, toute la gagne.
01:33 Moi, je sers avec mon cain.
01:37 This was a time when people wrestled with life.
01:40 Toi, est-ce que tu penses à toi?
01:43 Moi?
01:44 Toi?
01:45 And many dreams were broken.
01:52 With Jean Duceppe, Olivette Thibault, Hélène Loisel, Lionel Villeneuve, Monique Mercure, Linn Champagne, Jacques Gagnon, and many others.
02:12 Directed by Claude Jutras.
02:17 A great Quebec film, funny, yet sad.
02:24 A bittersweet, achingly beautiful recollection of people, moments, and feelings everyone has shared.
02:33 A film by Claude Jutras.
02:39 A film by Claude Jutras.
02:43 A film by Claude Jutras.
02:47 [SILENCE]