Cinema Canada (Dec 1974-Jan 1975)

™N of course. We follow a married couple living a typical bourgeois life but the script is looking at them with a cynical view. . . . He is working in an advertising business and she is a prototype of the modern housewife taking care of their one child in a fashionable highrise apartment. That particular day is stretched on a 15 year period, or maybe 15 years all seems to be a day long. ... They get older, the furniture deteriorates, and by the end their daughter is an adolescent. One of the highlights is a very camp scene in the best genre of the American musicals of the 40’s in which the Jutra/Miller couple dances to music in the style of the Astaire/Rogers performances with a nostalgic look at their past. But the words of the song they sing together reflects their hatred for each Other ss-+ Director of photography: Alain Dostie. Sound: Jacques Blain. With: Claude Jutra, Monique Miller, Pierre Dufresne and Monique Mercure playing cello in one scene. Music: Pierre F. Brault and J.S. Bach. Script: Monique Champagne. La Tete de Normande St-Onge There is no project scheduled for shooting this winter except for Gille Carle’s next feature — La Téte de Normande St-Onge from a script by Carle and actress Carole Laure. Five days of shooting that required a fall setting are already in the can, but the other 35 days are postponed until sufficient backing is confirmed. Produced by Pierre Lamy for Les Productions Carle-Lamy the film received an approval from the CFDC. Roger Frappier (director of L’Infonie Inachevée) is assistant director and Francois Protat (DOP on Les Ordres) is director of photography. The film centers around the character of Normande St-Onge (played by Carole Laure) living in the neighbourhood of the newly erected Place Radio-Canada on the East side of Montréal. She is working in a drugstore and, at times, modelling for a necrophiliac sculptor who lives in the same apartment building. It is a strange surrounding: the tenants are a lot of students mixed with older people who never left their cheap rented flats. Normande tries to bring her mother to live with her but she can’t convince the direction of the asylum where she was interned on a wrong testimony. Mustang Marcel Lefebvre completed Mustang, his first feature produced by Pierre David for Les Productions Mutuelles. Described as an action film, it was shot during the Festival Western in St-Tite from September 6 to October 5. From a script by Lefebvre (no connection with Jean-Pierre) in collaboration with Gilles Gauthier and Jean Salvy the film stars Luce Guilbeault, Willie Lamothe, Claude Blanchard, Albert Millaire, Nanette Workman, Jack Beaucholte, Muriel Millard, Andrée Pelletier, Catherine Blanche and Bobby Hachey. The CFDC invested for one third of the 300,000 dollar budget. René Verzier: director of photography. Jean-Claude Labrecque: Second Unit DOP. Jean-Claude Lord (director of Les Colombes and Bingo) Production Consultant. Distribution and world sales are to be handled by Les Films Mutuels. 32 Cinema Canada Gina Denys Arcand is currently editing . . . refer to Issue No. 16 for details. La Piastre _ Alain Chartrand shot La Piastre at Association Coopérative des Productions Audio-visuelles (ACPAV) and Yves Dion (editor on Les Ordres) is currently editing the 16mm feature to be blown up to 35mm for theatre release. The film stars Claude Gauthier (Les Ordres), Pierre Thériault (Réjeanne Padovani), Patricia Nolin, Paule Baillargeon (Montréal Blues and Gina), Michéle Magny (La Chambre Blanche), Han Masson and Rachel Cailher (Les Maudits Sauvages). The film is from a script from Chartrand and Diane Cailher and is a reflection on life in the upper middle class which lives in the suburbs of Montréal. Sound: Claude Beaugrand. Director of photography: Francois Beauchemin. No distribution agreements are settled yet. Producer: Marc Daigle for ACPAV with the financial assistance of the CFDC. 10.