Straight for the Heart

Straight for the Heart
À corps perdu
Directed byLéa Pool
Written byMarcel Beaulieu
Léa Pool
Yves Navarre (novel "Kurwenal")
Produced byDenise Robert
Robin Spry[1]
StarringMatthias Habich
Johanne-Marie Tremblay
Michel Voita
Jean-François Pichette
CinematographyPierre Mignot
Edited byMichel Arcand
Music byOsvaldo Montes
Release dates
  • September 30, 1988 (1988-09-30) (Canada)
  • January 12, 1990 (1990-01-12) (Netherlands)
Running time
92 minutes
CountriesCanada
Switzerland
LanguageFrench

Straight for the Heart (French: À corps perdu) is a 1988 Canadian/Swiss French-language drama film. It was filmed in Montreal,[1] It is based on Yves Navarre's novel "Kurwenal".[2] It was selected in the official competition of the Venice Film Festival, and the official competition at the Chicago International Film Festival.[3]

  1. ^ a b Loren Ruth Lerner Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the ..., Volume 1; Volume 7, p. 1260, at Google Books
  2. ^ Thomas Waugh Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas, p. 490, at Google Books
  3. ^ "LÉA POOL (Director)". lost-and-delirious.com. Retrieved 16 August 2018.