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Pigs Are Seldom Clean
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'Pigs Are Seldom Clean' (, lit. "One Doesn't Fatten Pigs in Clean Water") is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre and released in 1973.Gerald Pratley, 'A Century of Canadian Cinema'. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 170. The film stars Jean-Ren Ouellet as Bob Tremblay, an undercover Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer in Hull, Quebec, whose fiance Hlne is kidnapped and raped by the criminal gang he is infiltrating after his identity is discovered.Charles-Henri Ramond, [https://www.filmsquebec.com/films/on-engraisse-pas-cochons-eau-claire-jean-pierre-lefebvre/ "On nengraisse pas les cochons leau claire Film de Jean Pierre Lefebvre"]. 'Films du Qubec', April 12, 2009.
The film's cast also includes Marthe Nadeau, Maryse Pelletier, J.-Lo Gagnon, Jean-Pierre Saulnier, Louise Cuerrier and Denys Arcand.
Jay Scott of 'The Globe and Mail' characterized the film as "Lefebvre's only melodrama, a film that could almost be a product of the new German Cinema."Jay Scott, "Lefebvre's deceptive simplicity". 'The Globe and Mail', May 22, 1982.
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