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Bar Salon
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Wikipedia article
'Bar Salon' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Andr Forcier and released in 1974.Gerald Pratley, 'A Century of Canadian Cinema'. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 21. Considered to be the film which first established Forcier's reputation as a major filmmaking talent,Wyndham Wise, [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bar-salon "Bar Salon"]. 'The Canadian Encyclopedia', March 11, 2007. the film stars Guy L'cuyer as Charles Mthot, the owner of a seedy bar in Montreal which is failing due to its lack of clientele; desperate, he turns to his friend Larry (Glinas Fortin) for help, and is offered a new job as manager of a busier suburban bar, where he is drawn into an affair with a topless dancer who steals his car, and eventually ends up in jail after a drunken brawl.Peter Morris, [http://cfe.tiff.net/canadianfilmencyclopedia/content/films/bar-salon "Bar salon"]. 'Canadian Film Encyclopedia'.
The cast also includes Madeleine Chartrand as Charles's daughter Michle, Jacques Marcotte as Michle's fianc Robert, and Albert Payette, Franois Berd and Gaby Persechino as the few remaining patrons of Charles's bar.
Critical response
Writing for 'The Globe and Mail', Martin Knelman described the film as "a low-budget, black-and-white production, with an air of stylized tawdriness that suggests a Bogart movie of the forties."Martin Knelman, "Quebec's working-class despair stylized as in an old Bogart movie". 'The Globe and Mail', August 2, 1975.
For the Toronto International Film Festival's Canadian Film Encyclopedia, Peter Morris wrote that "The anecdotal structure of Bar salon acting that appears improvised but isn't, a sense of observation and sympathetic characterizations, a bittersweet comic tone recalls the earlier works of Milo Forman (Loves of a Blonde, The Firemans Ball). Yet Andr Forciers film is as authentically Qubcois as Formans is Czech. The style of Bar salon, aptly described as neo-naturalism, is carefully calculated. It captures Charless world of failure, amorality and hopelessness extraordinarily well."
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