The Handyman

Release Date: 1980-03-19

Overview: One of Canada's talented directors, actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective, engaging approach in this simple, poignant drama about Armand (Jocelyn Berube), a handyman with one problem romance after another. The quiet Armand settles into Montreal after his wife has left him and before long, he continues the momentum when an ill-considered liaison with a nubile woman ends on her insistence. Next, Armand gives his heart to a frustrated housewife, though this decision is hardly well thought out. In the meantime, a gay man who rents out a room in his apartment has unfulfilled longings directed at the unsuspecting handyman. L'Homme a Tout Faire won a Silver Medal for "Best Picture" at the 1980 San Sebastian Film Festival.

Rating: 2.667 / 10

Cast

Jocelyn Bérubé

as Armand Dorion

Andrée Pelletier

as Thérèse St-Amant

Paul Dion

as Coquel'oeil

Janette Bertrand

as Mme Lamarche, mère de Thérèse

Gilles Renaud

as Armand St-Amant