Symphorien (1970)★ 6.9/10
- Comedy
- Drama
Directed by: Pierre A. Morin, Gilles Vincent
Written by: Marcel Gamache
A janitor at a guesthouse juggles life with 14 kids, a dominant wife, and difficult in-laws. He deals with his boss Mrs. Sylvain, romantic tenant drama, and a pesky cop, while sharing jokes with his brother Ephrem.
- Original title
- Symphorien
- Storyline
- The life of several people whose lives revolves around a typical Montreal Guest House at the "Plateau-Mont-Royal" district. The main caracter, Symphorien, is a naive but sympathetic fellow, who is the janitor for this guest house run by Mrs. Sylvain, a single yet bumbling lady who runs the house in a strict, efficient way. However, she has sometimes some conflicts with one of the boarders, Ms L'Esperance, whose man-hunting tactics does not make unanimity all the time. And also endures a wacky undertaker, Oscar Bellemare, who woos Ms L'Esperance despite the warnings from his mother, an extreme conservative lady, who will marry a "snob from the West" later. About Symphorien, his life goes in a rollercoaster: he has a family of 14 children, with a dominating wife, endures an annoying and arrogant mother-in-law as well as a cop, Constable Beaulac, who blames every trouble he gets on him, befriends a con man (Donat Labonte), but seems to have at least a good time with his brother Ephrem, with whom he tells jokes to him, but the latter retells them in a way nobody understands them.
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 151
- Companies
- Télé-Métropole, TF1
- Release dates
- CA September 8, 1970
- FR January 7, 1975