Isabel (film)


Isabel is a 1968 Canadian film written, directed and produced by Paul Almond.

Synopsis

Learning of her mother's serious illness, Isabel returns to her family's farm on the Gaspé Peninsula. Her mother dies before she can get there, and when her aged uncle Matthew asks her to stay on and help him with the farm, she reluctantly agrees. She finds herself haunted by memories of early years in a house full of eerie sights and sounds.

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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.
It was featured in the Canadian Cinema television series which aired on CBC Television in 1974.