Classification: R
Starring: Pascale Bussieres, Rachael Crawford, Henry Czerny, David Fox, Don McKellar, Claire Coulter, Tracy Wright Directed by: Patricia RozemaPassionate, lyrical and erotically charged, When Night is Falling is a unique and moving love story by Patricia Rozema, director of I've Heard the Mermaids Singing. The story centres around Camille, a professor of Mythology in a Christian college who is engaged to Martin, a supportive and conventional man. Her future seems decided until a chance meeting in a launderette with the enigmatic Petra, a sexy circus performer who flirts outrageously and ''accidentally' switches their bags of washing. Intrigued by Petra's love life, her beauty and charm, Camille is shocked to acknowledge the pleasure she experiences with this magnetic woman. Struggling against a desire which challenges her every belief, she finds her life turned upside down and realises she must make a choice. Should she stay with her secure job and fiancé? Or should she run away to the magical world of the circus and into the arms of the dazzling and passionate Petra?
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