The Tin Flute

Adapted from Gabrielle Roy's best-selling novel The Tin Flute which was awarded the prestigious French Prix Fémina, in 1947. The film takes place in the poor neighborhood of St. Henri, in Montreal, during the Second World War. Florentine Lacasse, a young waitress, who dreams of a better life and is helping her parents get by, falls in love with Jean Lévesque, an ambitious machinist-electrician. Quickly tiring of the relationship, Lévesque introduces her to a friend, Emmanuel Letourneau, who is a soldier on leave. Emmanuel falls in love with Florentine. A parallel thread in the film is the Lacasse family life, made very difficult by the Great Depression.