Cinema Canada (Dec 1974-Jan 1975)

second with all three Carle-Lamy productions: Gina by Denys Arcand, Pour Le Meilleur Ou Pour Le Pire by Claude Jutra and Tout Feu Tout Femme by Gilles Richer. Les Films Mutuels will show with two Productions Mutuelles features: Mustang by Marcel Lefebvre and Les Aventures D’Une Jeune Veuve by Roger Fournier (like Richard Martin, he is working at the CBC and directed one feature in the private sector, Pile Ou Face, in 1971). Also ready for release are La Gammick, an NFB production directed by Jacques Godbout, and Sweet Movie by Dusan Makavejev, which was held up by the prosecution actress Carole Laure held against co-producers Mojack Films of Montréal, Vincent Malle Productions of Paris and Maran Films of Munich. The film should be released as soon as the judgement will be made public. Action, a documentary on the October crisis by Robin Spry (Prologue) was released at the Cinémathéque Québécoise and should be programmed on television also. There is a follow-up to this film entitled Reaction. Both films were produced at the NFB and are distributed through their channels. Guitare, directed by Richard Lavoie, was screened at Le Festival du Cinéma Québécois organised by Le Conseil Québécois pour la Diffusion du Cinéma during Les Jeux du Québec in Valleyfield. Also shown in Valleyfield, L’Ou’L, an independent feature produced and directed by Jean Gagné and Serge Gagné; Mistashipu a documentary directed by Arthur Laméthe for a series produced for CBC was programmed at various festivals and gained considerable attention for its significance and objectivity on the Indian problem. Ciné-Capitale, a newly formed company, distributed Y A Pas de Mal a Se Faire du Bien a co-produced feature by French director Claude Mulot; and René Simard au Japon by Laurent Larouche, a documentary on the recent tour in Japan by young Québec singer René Simard. Along with Child Under a Leaf, the only other English language film to be released was Why Rock the Boat? by John Howe from a novel by William Weintraub and produced at the NFB. The film stars Stuart Gillard, Ken James and Toronto actress and model Tiiu Leek in the leading roles. The following are in production in the Private Sector: Les Vautours, Pour Le Meilleur Ou Pour le Pire, La Téte de Normande St-Onge, Gina, La Piastre, Ti-Cul Tougas, Au Coeur du Monde Primitif, Pousse Mais Pousse Egal, Tout Feu Tout Femme, Superfrancofete. Les Vautours At press time, the only feature shooting in Québec in the Private Sector is Les Vautours directed by Jean-Claude Labrecque (Les Smattes and La Nuit de la Poésie, and Labrecque was also director of photography on numerous other features) from a script by Robert Gurik with collaboration from Jacques Jacob. Alain Dostie is director of photography (DOP on Gina, Réjeanne Padovani and Pour le Meilleur ou Pour le Pire) as well as operator on one camera while Labrecque manages between directing to operate the other Arriflex 35 BL. The film is entirely shot in black and white and will be printed on colour stock because the very end includes colour stock shots from the civil funerals after the death of Premier Duplessis. The storyline is set in Québec City in 1959 where Mrs. Pelletier dies and leaves her son with very little besides ambition. He is 17 and receives condolences from relatives, neighbours, the undertaker, the parish priest and the politicians; everyone looking afflicted for the circumstances. Les Vautours describes the situation in Québec at the time and pictures the end of an era, dominated by two intricate powers: Duplessis in politics and the Church over the society. Production: Les Films Jean-Claude Labrecque Inc. Producer: Louise Ranger. Assistant directors: Jacques Méthé and René Pothier. Sound: Serge Beauchemin. Set decorator: Normand Sarrazin. Cast: Gilbert Sicotte — Monique Mercure — Carmen Trembley — Amulette Garneau — Anne-Marie Provencher — Yolande Roy — Jean Mathieu — Guy L’Ecuyer — Rita Lafontaine — Denyse Proulx. Pour Le Meilleur ou Pour Le Pire Pascale Laverriére is editing Pour le Meilleur ou Pour le Pire. Claude Jutra’s seventh feature. Jutra directed a script of his own for the second time (the first being A Tout Prendre in 1963) but it was somewhat a different situation for him having a budget one third of his previous venture, Kamouraska. But what he was not getting in cash-flow was compensated by a great freedom in action (he was playing a leading role as well as directing). It took nearly a year to convince the investors and to find a distributor that agreed with his proposals. The film was previously scheduled for a winter shooting in studio but was delayed after Michael Costom refused to distribute the film and to invest in the project. At that time, Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie had a deal with Les productions Carle-Lamy to distribute 4 features and this included Gina and Pour le Meilleur ou Pour le Pire which are now handled by Cinépix. The shooting was completed within its budget and 7-week time schedule. The first four weeks were shot at Cinévision’s studio in Montréal and the remaining three on various locations in the city. The film was shot in colour using the new Eastman 5247 negative for the interiors and black and white for the locations; everything is to be printed on colour stock Cinema Canada 31