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The Necessities of Life

Ce qu'il faut pour vivre (The Necessities of Life) Trailer | MoMA Film

In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes despondent. When he refuses to eat and expresses a wish to d...

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