Over My Head (, lit. "Up to the Neck") is a Canadian drama film, directed by Denis Héroux and released in 1964.Andrée Fortin, "Mémoire des années 1960 dans le cinéma québécois". Les Cahiers des dix, No, 69 (2015). pp. 1-48. The film stars Raymond Levasseur as Raymond Cardinal, a university student who begins a relationship with fellow student Édith (Édith de Villers), only to set off a chain of complications when he discovers that she is also having an affair with his father François (Guy Dufresne), a professor at the same institution.Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 164.
It was made as a student film while Héroux was in film studies at the Université de Montréal, and never received widespread commercial distribution beyond screenings at the university; however, the film was later noted for having documentary value, as its scenes include brief appearances by Pierre Bourgault, André D'Allemagne, Pierre Trudeau and Gérard Pelletier as themselves conducting political debates on Quebec separatism at the university, and a performance by Bernard Landry in a small role as a Front de libération du Québec terrorist.Benoît Aubin, "Des films oubliés de la «belle époque»". Le Journal de Montréal, September 14, 2010. In 2010, it was included in a retrospective screening series at the Cinémathèque québécoise devoted to films of the Quiet Revolution.Charles-Henri Ramond, "La Révolution tranquille à l’honneur". Films du Québec, September 2, 2010.
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