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Isabel (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Isabel' is a 1968 Canadian film written, directed and produced by Paul Almond.
Synopsis
Learning of her mother's serious illness, Isabel (Genevive Bujold) returns to her family's farm on the Gasp Peninsula. Her mother dies before she can get there, and when her aged uncle Matthew (Gerard Parkes) asks her to stay on and help him with the farm, she reluctantly agrees. She finds herself haunted by memories of early years (domestic violence, incest and the mysterious deaths of her grandfather, who died in a freak accident, and her father and brother, who both drowned at sea) in a house full of eerie sights and sounds.
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Reception
'Isabel' is the first film of Paul Almond's trilogy made with his then-wife Genevive Bujold, it won four Canadian Film Awards, and was one of the early Canadian films to be distributed by a major Hollywood studio (Paramount Pictures).
It was featured in the Canadian Cinema television series which aired on CBC Television in 1974.
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