''Chocolate Eclair'' (french: Éclair au chocolat) is a Canadian drama film from

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, directed by

Jean-Claude Lord Jean-Claude Lord (6 June 1943 – 15 January 2022) was a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He was one of the most commercial of the Québécois directors in the 1970s, aiming his feature films at a mass audience and dealing with political ...

and released in 1979."Eclair au chocolat – Film de Jean-Claude Lord"
''Films du Québec'', January 15, 2009. The film centres on Pierre (Jean Belzil-Gascon), a young boy struggling to accept that his single mother Marie-Louise (

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) has begun a new relationship after the death of his father. What he does not know is that his mother has lied to protect him: his real father is not dead, but in fact he is the offspring of Marie-Louise having been

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d by her father. The film's cast also includes

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, Colin Fox, Michèle Deslauriers and

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. The film garnered three

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nominations at the

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in 1980, in the categories of Best Adapted Screenplay (Lord and Jean Salvy), Best Costume Design (

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) and

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(Marcel Pothier)."Changeling leads Canadian Film Award nominees". ''

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'', February 8, 1980.

Plot

After she had been raped by her father, a young woman leaves the town with her new born son. Years later, the son can't accept that his mother fell in love with someone else than the mythical father she had told him about.

References

External links

* * 1979 films Canadian coming-of-age drama films Incest in film Films directed by Jean-Claude Lord 1970s French-language films French-language Canadian films 1970s Canadian films 1970s coming-of-age drama films {{1970s-Canada-film-stub