(NOTE: I do not think that any of my comments could be considered "spoilers", since this movie **is** 50 years-old)
As I read the comments made by the previous users, I cannot believe that being from Quebec, they forget to mention that Aurore Gagnon, **did really die** from the horrendous treatments that her step-mother inflicted on her, and not on any other children. Aurore died in the early 1930's. The movie was made in 1952, when movie-making in Quebec was nothing but an "American dream", with no government fundings and no major studios or production companies.
Yes! The music is dismal. Yes! The photography is laughable. Yes! The actors are barely-believable. **But** the atmosphere of the film, dismal as it looks, should render what it was like to live in this house for that girl.
Anecdote: In the months that followed the release of the movie, Lucie Mitchell, the actress playing the step-mother was insulted and slapped (if not beaten) in the street and on the bus, by people believing that **she** had done those things to the poor girl.
As I read the comments made by the previous users, I cannot believe that being from Quebec, they forget to mention that Aurore Gagnon, **did really die** from the horrendous treatments that her step-mother inflicted on her, and not on any other children. Aurore died in the early 1930's. The movie was made in 1952, when movie-making in Quebec was nothing but an "American dream", with no government fundings and no major studios or production companies.
Yes! The music is dismal. Yes! The photography is laughable. Yes! The actors are barely-believable. **But** the atmosphere of the film, dismal as it looks, should render what it was like to live in this house for that girl.
Anecdote: In the months that followed the release of the movie, Lucie Mitchell, the actress playing the step-mother was insulted and slapped (if not beaten) in the street and on the bus, by people believing that **she** had done those things to the poor girl.