Vic + Flo Saw A Bear
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Vic + Flo Saw A Bear
A Film by Denis Côté
2013 - Canada - Drama - DCP - 1.85 - 95 min.
with Pierrette Robitaille , Romane Bohringer & Marc-André Grondin
Language: French
Produced by Sylvain Corbeil & Stéphanie Morissette
Victoria, an ex-convict in her sixties, wants to start new life in a remote sugar shack. Under the supervision of Guillaume, a young, sympathetic parole officer, she tries to get her life back on track along with Florence, her former cellmate with whom she shared years of
intimacy in prison. Stalked by ghosts of the past, their new life together is unexpectedly jeopardized.
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