Ruth is the story of a painful adolescence. Ruth decides on a whim to leave her small village in the Bas Saint-Laurent for the "real world" of the big city, Montreal. There she meets up with her brother, Jean-Paul. Her many lovers range from one-night stands like Bernard to Yves and Robert, who are briefly in her life. Passionate, anticonformist Ruth has to contend with her brother's ferocious jealousy - he goes as far as attacking Robert, his best friend. Robert, completely baffled by Ruth's cynical recklessness, finally pushes her away. Ruth continues her struggle to find absolute love. She clings passionately, clumsily and shamelessly to those she loves and those she doesn't, in frenzied desperation. Continually disappointed and shut out by the "real world," she chooses a way out that is typically extreme...
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Emmanuel Bilodeau
Known for
August 32nd on Earth
Micheline Lanctôt
Known for
Ravenous
The Nature of Love
Ariane Frédérique
Ruth
Known for
The Decline of the American Empire
Frédérique Tessier
Jean Gaudreau
Also in
Beebe-Plain
Gaétan Nadeau
Known for
Next Floor
Marcel Pomerlo
Also in
The Master Key
Beebe-Plain
François Delisle Director · Me Mom and Morgentaler Composer Étienne de Massy Cinematographer
First release August 31, 1994 · Produced in Canada
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h264
Production
Canada
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Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
Canada · August 31, 1994
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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