This week is book club week, and I've had great fun talking about Ian McEwan's Amsterdam (Pierrefonds, Lloyd Jones's Mr. Pip (Atwater) and Anne Hébert's Kamouraska (Outremont). Tonight Champagne by Monique Proulx is on the agenda in Kirkland.The hit so far is Kamouraska, a story of love and passion in the Quebec of the 1830s. Claude Jutras made a marvelous film of it with Geneviève Bujold, which apparently has been remastered for DVD but which hasn't been yet been re-released. It is bound to be something worth seeing again.
The picture is from the film: I scanned it from the jacket of the paperback I bought shortly after it was published in 1970. The fact that I couldn't find a more interesting still photo on the Internet, while the only video clip on YouTube is a 39 second one, reflects on the way someone (Quebecor perhaps which apparently is behind the DVD release) is controlling the film. It should be made available more widely.
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