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Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail
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'Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Don Owen and released in 1966.Steve Gravestock, 'Don Owen: Notes on a Filmmaker and His Culture'. Indiana University Press, 2005. . The film centres on Donna (Michle Chicoine) and Gail (Jackie Burroughs), two young women who work together at a dress factory and live together as roommates, tracing the evolution and decline of their friendship in a documentary-style format. The film makes use of the then-novel device of an unreliable narrator, ultimately revealing that the film is much more about the narrator's skewed perceptions of the women's relationship than it is about the women themselves. It was inspired in part by the contemporaneous films of Jean-Luc Godard.
The characters of Donna and Gail recurred in Owen's 1967 feature film 'The Ernie Game'.Martin Knelman, "Donna and Gail shows what we ought to be doing in film". 'Toronto Star', August 17, 1968. Prior to the release of 'The Ernie Game', in which Donna and Gail were involved in a love triangle with Alexis Kanner's Ernie, some critics who had seen only 'Notes' perceived Donna and Gail as being in a quasi-lesbian relationship; however, Owen demurred on this perception by saying "I really don't know, because, well, what is a lesbian relationship?"Roy Shields, "Festival's fiction and MPs' fictions". 'Toronto Star', November 2, 1967.
The film won a Canadian Film Award in the General Information category at the 19th Canadian Film Awards in 1967.Maria Topalovich, 'And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards'. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . pp. 77-79.
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