Take It All

Take It All (1963)

À tout prendre

Some of the most exciting games are played on the fringes of convention.

A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young intellectuals in early sixties Montreal.

Date of release
1963-08-09
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Claude Jutra

Casting

Interesting facts

À tout prendre is a Canadian drama film, directed by Claude Jutra and released in 1963. The film stars Jutra and Johanne Harrelle. The film is widely recognized as one of the inaugural films of a new wave of Quebecois cinema for a secular and progressive independent nation.

Background and production

It was filmed on location in Montreal on 16mm film in 1963, and then enlarged to 35mm for theatrical release. The majority of the scenes were shot in multiple versions, which allowed Jutra to build a collection of images and sounds to create his film, "like a writer working with his own dictionary of words."

Johanne Harrelle recalls she first met Jutra in 1954, and "Jutra was her first love." She also remembers that when Jutra was preparing to make A tout prendre, he asked her to move in with him, but "the more I lived with him, the more I was thinking it was just because he needed me for his film; it is not my way to linger, so I left."

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