The Handyman

One of Canadas talented directors actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective engaging approach in this simple poignant drama about Armand Jocelyn Berube a handyman with one problem romance after another The quiet Armand settles into Montreal after his wife has left him and before long he continues the momentum when an illconsidered liaison with a nubile woman ends on her insistence Next Armand gives his heart to a frustrated housewife though this decision is hardly well thought out In the meantime a gay man who rents out a room in his apartment has unfulfilled longings directed at the unsuspecting handyman LHomme a Tout Faire won a Silver Medal for Best Picture at the 1980 San Sebastian Film Festival