My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(VHS, VCI Communications)
John Vernon rescues Genevieve Bujold from a river and takes her to his commune to recover. Genevieve sleepwalks through the first half of the film, unable to speak and psychotic, she thinks everything happening is a dream. She does eventually speak and wastes no time in expressing her desire to return to civilization, but not before expressing it for Vernon as well. The film feels more like a documentary on communes than anything else, and includes graphic footage of cows mating, a pig slaughter and a live cow birth. I guess you see those things on a commune, but I don't want to see them on film. Nonetheless, the locations in remote Quebec are often stunning and poetically photographed, but the hippie commune life is dated and often unintentionally funny.
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