The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in 1987,Matthew Fraser, "Fellini, Rohmer to attend film festival". The Globe and Mail, August 5, 1987. but was distributed primarily as a television film broadcast by Télévision de Radio-Canada in November.Richard Martineau, "Un film très intime signé Michel Tremblay". TV Hebdo, November 20, 1987. It was later screened at the Frameline Film Festival in 1989, where it won the Audience Award."Big box office for gay film fest". San Francisco Examiner, June 29, 1989.
