The Heart Exposed

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Short description|1987 Canadian film}} {{Infobox television | native_name = {{infobox name module|fr|Le Cœur découvert}} | image = | caption = | director = Jean-Yves Laforce | producer = | writer = Michel Tremblay | based_on = {{Based on|''The Heart Laid Bare (Le Cœur découvert)''|Michel Tremblay}} | starring = Michel Poirier<br>Gilles Renaud | music = Michel-Charles Therrien | cinematography = Jean Pierre Lefebvre | editor = André Daigneault | company = Société Radio-Canada | network = | runtime = 106 minutes | released = {{Start date|1987|11}} | country = Canada | language = French | budget = }} '''''The Heart Exposed''''' ({{langx|fr|link=no|Le Cœur découvert}}) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean-Yves Laforce and released in 1987.<ref>"«J'ai voulu avant tout raconter une histoire d'amour»: Jean-Yves Laforce au Festival des films du monde". ''Le Devoir'', August 31, 1987.</ref> Written by Michel Tremblay as an adaptation of his own novel ''The Heart Laid Bare (Le Cœur découvert)'', the film centres on the relationship between Jean-Marc (Gilles Renaud) and Mathieu (Michel Poirier), two gay men who meet and fall in love despite a ten-year age difference and the complication that Mathieu is the father of a five-year-old son.<ref>Mari Florence, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81015221/ "The Heart Exposed (Le Coeur Decouvert)"]. ''LA Weekly'', July 20, 1989.</ref>

The film's cast also includes Olivier Chasse, Louisette Dussault, Amulette Garneau, Louise Rinfret, Pierre Houle and Robert Lalonde.

The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in 1987,<ref>Matthew Fraser, "Fellini, Rohmer to attend film festival". ''The Globe and Mail'', August 5, 1987.</ref> but was distributed primarily as a television film broadcast by Télévision de Radio-Canada in November.<ref>Richard Martineau, "Un film très intime signé Michel Tremblay". ''TV Hebdo'', November 20, 1987.</ref> It was later screened at the Frameline Film Festival in 1989, where it won the Audience Award.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81014018/ "Big box office for gay film fest"]. ''San Francisco Examiner'', June 29, 1989.</ref>

Thomas Waugh, writing for ''Cinema Canada'', stated that "It is a fine pleasure to see this warmhearted little gem, not only because of positive representation of gays in this year when everyone's gushing about ''Night Zoo'', a violent misogynist derivative film that exults in queer-baiting and queer-smashing, but because one of our finest writers has made another all-too-rare visit to the screen."<ref>Thomas Waugh, "Jean-Yves Laforce's Le Coeur découvert". ''Cinema Canada'', December 1987.</ref>

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