À tout prendre
| À tout prendre | |
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| Directed by | Claude Jutra |
| Written by | Claude Jutra |
| Produced by | Claude Jutra Robert Hershorne |
| Starring | Claude Jutra Johanne Harrelle |
| Cinematography | Michel Brault Bernard Gosselin Jean-Claude Labrecque |
| Edited by | Claude Jutra |
| Music by | Maurice Blackburn Jean Cousineau Serge Garant |
Production companies | Les Films Cassiopée Orion Films |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $60,000 |
À tout prendre (released as All Things Considered in English Canada and as Take It All in the United States) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Claude Jutra and released in 1963. The film stars Jutra and Johanne Harrelle. The film is widely recognized as one of the inaugural films of a new wave of Quebecois cinema for a secular and progressive independent nation.
The film was made with the intention to blend documentary aesthetics with a fictional narrative. Jutra described it as a "re-happening" of events from his life, made "in the manner of Rouch." The film depicted taboo subjects of adultery, interracial sexuality, abortion, and homosexuality. It was his first film made outside the National Film Board.
The film's ending, in which Jutra's character walks off a pier into a river and presumably drowns, eerily foreshadowed his own death in 1986.