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...calling the tricks, as the madam _ of a rural Quebec brothel in Les corps célestes
no more than Swiss film, or American film. Film is becoming more and more costly. Kodak has raised its prices, and now you can’t make a low-budget film for less than $800,000. Go find $800,000. It's hard, because we don’t have a market.
Cinema Canada: This famous division between the ‘Quebec’ film industry and the ‘Canadian’ industry... people say it’s made on the basis of market. There’s certainly a different flavour to the pictures being produced here; and everyone says, “Marvelous movies.” Then that little addendum : “Who’s going to go see them ?” Do you think that’s a question for Quebec, or should it be directed to the English-language pictures ?
Micheline Lanctdt : I think it should be directed to the English-language pictures. Michel Bouchard, who’s president of the
The only money the CFDC is going to see back will be from the Quebec pictures.
Directors’ Association in Quebec says that the Canadian Film Development Corporation is going to be confronted with a very serious problem, because the only films that are going to be making money are the Quebec films. And the CFDC oriented its policies toward the super and co-productions, thinking that
these would feed the market. Look, Quebec pictures can’t be released in the rest of Canada. For a variety of reasons, people just won’t go see them. But I see no reason why Quebec films shouldn’t be distributed in New York, France, Italy — the same route that any picture goes.
Cinema Canada: But what about the prevailing attitude that you don’t aim for the art house circuit — which is where the Quebec pictures would probably end up — you aim instead for distribution under the majors’ umbrella; you try for TV sales, home box office ; and by that route, you'll see a return on your investment ? Micheline Lanctdt : | know people think that way, but I think they'll be proven wrong. | think the only money the CFDC is going to see back will be from the Quebec pictures. 'm judging from the success of the Quebec pictures that came out recently. I haven’t seen the figures from any of the super-productions, but |
‘think most of them haven’t made their
money.
Cinema Canada: Do you think there really is an English-language ‘Canadian’ film ?
Micheline Lanctét: Yes. Goin’ Down the Road. | remember when we saw that film, we came out singing and dancing in the street. I couldn’t believe it. I was staggered. Despite its problems, it was precisely what | think of as a ‘Canadian’ film. I mean, Gordon Pinsent has three wonderful scripts, all set in Newfoundland. And he can’t get them off the ground. And that is English Canada to me. There’s a book called Halfbreed which a friend of mine in Alberta is trying to turn into a picture. Its a magical subject: totally Canadian, and yet it’s universal. Its an autobiography. And he can’t get the project off the ground.
Closing a deal with a local farmer for her wheeling and dealing beau, Duddy Kravitz, Yvette soon discovers that her love for him isn’t enough
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