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I am certain that purists of the genre will make references to the book itself. Quite frankly, I will assume that the movie is much better when you haven't read the book, because you don't have anything to complain about. I know what it is to flame a movie because it doesn't respect a highly acclaimed work of Litterature. And when you harass Quebec people about their pride, they flame on you quite hard, even if they'll turn back seconds later because of... Nevermind. Le Survenant struck me as a wonderful love movie. The only I've ever appreciated in my whole life. A plot well-written, music to break your heart at the right moments. A musical appearance by Sylvain Cossette and characters to get attached to. If you wanna watch this, make sure you haven't read the book first. I didn't and I loved the movie.

This movie was quite good but the book is better. The Outlander (Le Survenant) really deliver the merchandise with a marvelous acting. If anybody read the book, they'll agree that Jean-Nicolas Verreault did a marvelous job. The problem of the movie is the psychological approach and the fact that they made from the movie, a big Love Story between Angelina and Le Survenant. In the book, it's present but it's not all about that. In fact,this is a really important book in Quebec Litterature history because it break with the Traditional Clerk society. Survenant is the symbol of a changing Quebec society that is coming : The Quiet Revolution. When Guèvremont wrote this book, she had a «happy ending» where Survenant was revealing his story. The second version kept the magic: We don't know where's Survenant is from, neither what's his secrets. We only know that he's disturbing a Traditional society, and his passage trough this town is a announcement of the Changes that are above.