{{Infobox film | name = Isabel | image = Isabel (film).jpg | caption = Film poster | director = Paul Almond | producer = Paul Almond | writer = Paul Almond | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Geneviève Bujold|Lynden Bechervaise|Therese Cadorette}} | music = Harry Freedman | cinematography = Georges Dufaux | editing = George Appleby | studio = Quest Film Productions | distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = {{Film date|1968|07|23|United States|df=yes}} | runtime = 108 minutes | country = Canada | language = English | budget = {{estimation}} $CAD300,000<ref name="new">Canada Is Luring Movie Producers By VINCENT CANBY. New York Times 4 Mar 1967: 15.</ref> | gross = }} '''''Isabel''''' is a 1968 Canadian film written, directed and produced by Paul Almond.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6be135d9|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004001256/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6be135d9|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 4, 2018|title=Isabel (1967)|website=BFI}}</ref>
==Synopsis== Learning of her mother's serious illness, Isabel (Geneviève Bujold) returns to her family's farm on the Gaspé Peninsula. Her mother dies before she can get there, and when her aged uncle Matthew (Gerard Parkes) asks her to stay on and help him with the farm, she reluctantly agrees. She finds herself haunted by memories of early years (domestic violence, incest and the mysterious deaths of her grandfather, who died in a freak accident, and her father and brother, who both drowned at sea) in a house full of eerie sights and sounds.
==Cast== {{cast listing| * Geneviève Bujold as Isabel * Marc Strange as Jason * Gerard Parkes as Uncle Matthew * Elton Hayes as Eb * Edie Kerr as Viola * Al Waxman as Herb * Ratch Wallace as Herb's Friend * Lynden Bechervaise as Herb's Friend * Eric Clavering as Postmaster * Therese Cadorette as Sister Estelle * Rob Hayes as Fisherman * J. Donald Dow as Storekeeper }}
==Reception== ''Isabel'' is the first film of Paul Almond's trilogy made with his then-wife Geneviève Bujold, it won four Canadian Film Awards, and was one of the early Canadian films to be distributed by a major Hollywood studio (Paramount Pictures).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=44&csid1=19&navid=46|title=Isabel|publisher=Film Library Reference|year=2003|accessdate=2009-10-21|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226212750/http://www.filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=44|archivedate=2009-02-26}}</ref><ref name="new"/>
It was featured in the Canadian Cinema television series which aired on CBC Television in 1974.<ref name=CCF>{{cite web | url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=1170 | first=John | last=Corcelli | date=August 2005 | title=Canadian Cinema | publisher=Canadian Communications Foundation | accessdate=7 May 2010 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706170226/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=1170 | archivedate=6 July 2011 }}</ref>
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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0063140}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Isabel}} Category:1968 films Category:Films set in Quebec Category:Gaspé Peninsula Category:1968 drama films Category:Canadian drama films Category:English-language Canadian films Category:Films directed by Paul Almond Category:1968 English-language films Category:1968 Canadian films Category:English-language drama films
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