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About Pure

Pure is a 2005 Quebec film directed by Jim Donovan, written by Eugene Garcia, and starring Laura Jordan, Karen Simpson, Gianpaolo Venuta and Rachelle Lefevre. This was Jim Donovan's first feature film.

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Plot

Misha seeks to escape her party-girl past and enroll in college.

Cast

Laura Jordan as Misha

Karen Simpson as Angie

Gianpaolo Venuta as Josh

Rachelle Lefevre as Julie

Tim Rozon as Sam

Abeille Gélinas as Sabrina

Release and reception

The movie was released on DVD in February 2006.

Awards and nominations

Jim Donovan was received a 2005 Directors Guild of Canada nomination for Pure. It also received Jury Prize for Best Photography at the 2005 Canadian Film Festival in Toronto.

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Notable quotes

“To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.”
— Gautama Buddha, in the Dhammapada, Verse 183.
“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”
— John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life
“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Have you not seen those who claim themselves to be pure? Rather, Allah purifies whom He wills, and injustice is not done to them, (even) as much as a thread (inside a date seed).”
— Quran 4:49
“Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.”
— The stream is always purer at its source.

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