Directed by: Larry Kent
Stars: Steve Fiset, Susan Sarandon, Céline Bernier, Carole Laure
Language: English (Partial French with English Subtitle)
Country: Canada | Imdb Info
Also known as: Fleur bleue, The Apprentice
Description: Jean-Pierre is young, broke, restless, and already running out of chances. In Montreal, he drifts between dead-end jobs, unpaid rent, petty schemes, and the influence of Dock, an older criminal friend who treats survival as a game of hustle and theft.
He has a fiancée, Michelle, whose political convictions and emotional loyalty tie him to the Francophone world he comes from. But Jean-Pierre is not built for certainty. He wants escape, glamour, money, and a version of himself that feels larger than his circumstances.
Then he meets Elizabeth.
An American model working on a commercial shoot, Elizabeth enters his life just as he is being fired from a low-level job. She comes to apologize, but her freedom, beauty, and casual confidence immediately fascinate him. To Jean-Pierre, she represents everything outside his cramped world: English-speaking privilege, sexual openness, mobility, and the promise of someplace else.
The affair pulls him into a painful triangle. Michelle tries to hold him close, while Elizabeth refuses to become the stable fantasy he projects onto her. Jean-Pierre, caught between language, class, desire, and insecurity, begins making worse decisions in order to impress the woman he barely understands. Borrowed money turns into theft. Romantic escape becomes criminal desperation. The dream of leaving Montreal for Acapulco begins to look less like liberation and more like another trap.
Blue Flower is not a simple romance. It is a portrait of a young man caught between two women, two languages, and two versions of Canada. Jean-Pierre’s tragedy is that he mistakes movement for freedom, desire for direction, and crime for possibility.
Legacy Note:
Directed by Larry Kent, Blue Flower is a rarely seen Canadian drama from the early 1970s, also known internationally as The Apprentice. Its cult interest today rests partly on an early appearance by Susan Sarandon, but the film is more than a footnote in a star’s career.
It captures a specific Montreal atmosphere: bilingual tension, working-class frustration, Quebec separatist politics, sexual revolution uncertainty, and the economic divide between Anglophone and Francophone worlds. The film’s roughness is part of its texture. It feels like a youth drama, a crime story, and a cultural snapshot all at once — a small, uneasy Canadian time capsule where romance cannot escape politics, and personal failure is tied to the city’s deeper fractures.
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