French-Canadian director Michel Brault has endowed PAPER WEDDING with an aura of sincerity, honesty and genuine heart. While no masterpiece, the picture is a charming, tender and bittersweet diversion well worth viewing for the performances of Genevieve Bujold and Manuel Aranguiz.
Set in contemporary Montreal, Claire (Bujold) is an unmarried, underpaid college professor who earns extra money writing academic textbooks. An innocent at heart, Claire is not without experience in the ways of the world; she's involved in a longtime going-nowhere affair with Milosh (Teo
Spychalski), a married Czech professor and legal resident alien. Despite her affair and her modest...
Released:
1989
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins