Director Claude Jutra's acclaimed, sensitive, breakthrough film about a young boy coming of age in a small Quebec mining village swept the Canadian film awards and, in 1984, it was selected as the best Canadian film of all time by a panel of film critics and historians. Young Benoit slowly becomes aware of the affinities between love, life and death as he works as a stock boy in his  uncle Antoine's general store. Since Antoine serves as everything from notary to shopkeeper to undertaker, it is no wonder that Benoit learns about life quickly. Funny, sad and wise...essential viewing. In French with optional      Claude Jutra---Canada---1971---104 mins.