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Q-Bec My Love
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Wikipedia article
'Q-Bec My Love' is a Canadian film, directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre and released in 1970.Gerald Pratley, 'Torn Sprockets: The Uncertain Projection of the Canadian Film'. University of Delaware Press, 1987. . p. 195. A satirical allegory for Quebec nationalism,"Quebec film makers look to the commercial". 'The Globe and Mail', August 7, 1970. the film is depicted in disconnected vignettes which portray the professional, sexual and romantic relationships of Q-Bec (Anne Lauriault) with her boss Peter Ottawa (Denis Payne), her husband Jean-Baptiste Bilingue (Jean-Pierre Cartier) and her lover Sam Washington (Larry Kent).[http://www.filmsquebec.com/films/qbec-my-love-jean-pierre-lefebvre/ "Q-Bec my love Film de Jean Pierre Lefebvre"]. 'Films du Qubec', March 9, 2014.
Awards
The film was historically most noted for setting off a crisis in the Canadian Film Awards, when Lefebvre threatened to withdraw the film from the competition if the Ontario Censor Board did not withdraw its demand for the film's explicit sexuality to be edited."Canadian Film Awards copes with string of crises". 'The Globe and Mail', September 28, 1970. Several other filmmakers were also prepared to withdraw in solidarity, although provincial cabinet minister James Auld intervened to dissuade the board from insisting on the cuts. The film screening went ahead, but film directors from Quebec continued to perceive a systemic bias against them; in 1973, a number of Quebec filmmakers entirely boycotted the awards."Rebirth of the film awards". 'The Globe and Mail', October 2, 1975. This later protest resulted in the last-minute cancellation of the 1973 awards ceremony, with the winners announced only at a press conference, and the complete cancellation of the 1974 awards.
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