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Apres 40 ans de marriage a un homme grognon, Eva Smallwood claque la porte de sa luxueuse residence de westmount et decide de refaire sa vie. Installee miserablement dans un quartier pauvre de Montreal, elle reaprend le chemin de la liberte. Johnny, un immigrant roumain, lui fera retrouver aussi le chemain de l'amour. After 40 years of marriage to a grumpy man, Eva Smallwood slams the door of their luxurious residence in Westmount and decides to rebuild her life. Located in a miserably poor neighborhood of Montreal, she takes the road to freedom. Johnny, a Romanian immigrant, helps her to find the road of love. Great heartwarming film!

This lovely Canadian feature has Claire Bloom, playing younger than her real age and looking plump, as an English woman who leaves her marriage after 40 years. Although the narrative presents living on the pension as near-homelessness, with Bloom rifling through garbage to find useful items, her new life also happens to provide her with a protective boarding-type house, and a romance with a younger man. The romance is helped by the charm of Danjel Lavdie who plays off Bloom's elegance - though she uses a manic laugh to suggest that isn't totally a lady.
The treatment features an unintentional laugh in a gay man's line "I've never seen someone so careless with his (chess) queen", and a funny intentional exchange between Bloom and her ogre husband - "Couldn't ply your legs apart with a crowbar", "That probably wasn't the best way to try".
Susannah York pops up as Bloom's oldest friend, but she is featured in some of director Claude Fournier's ill-advised fantasy scenes - one where a boy in a thong parades for both women, and others where the characters are outlined with white light.

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