À TOUT PRENDRE (aka "Take It All")   Director: Claude Jutra Year: 1963 Runtime: 99 min. Country: Canada Language: French with English subtitles Color: B&W Format: 16mm

The bohemian counterculture of Montreal in the early 1960s is the backdrop for acclaimed director Claude Jutra's (Mon Oncle Antoine) independently produced feature À tout prendre. Inspired by the improvisational characteristics of the French New Wave, the film comprises the autobiographical events surrounding a young man’s troubled relationship with a beautiful Haitian woman. Counting Jean Renoir, Jean Cocteau and John Cassavetes among its many admirers, À tout prendre remains one of the key films of Canadian cinema. "I like the film very much; it’s first rate... the film is a step forward in the development of cinema." — Jean Renoir "A rich, suggestive, provocative work... filled with inventiveness... revolutionary." — Colin Young, Film Quarterly "Its felicitous sense of ambiguity, its air of freedom and spontaneity, and perhaps above all, a stylish vitality that contrasted so favourably with the earnestness of so many other contemporaneous Canadian films. None of this has been lost with the years." — Peter Morris, author of Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema     showtime Tuesday, May 31 at 7 pm location THE GREEN ROOM 144 West Street (across from the Comstock Hotel) admission $6 general / $4 GBFS members

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