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'The Christmas Martian' is a Canadian children's Christmas comedy film, directed by Bernard Gosselin and released in 1971.[Gerald Pratley, 'A Century of Canadian Cinema'. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 42.] The film stars Marcel Sabourin as Poo Flower, an extraterrestrial being from Mars who lands his spaceship near a small town in Northern Quebec during the Christmas season, befriending the local children but alarming their parents.["Filmmaker sees young as mischievious". 'Saskatoon Star-Phoenix', October 6, 1971.]
The film's cast also includes Catherine Leduc, Franois Gosselin, Guy L'cuyer, Roland Chenail, Paul Hbert, Louise Poulin-Roy, Paul Berval, Ernest Guimond, Yvan Canuel, Yvon Leroux and Reine Malo, as well as narration by Marc-Andr Coallier.
It was the first children's film ever made in Canada by a commercial studio independently of either the National Film Board of Canada or the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[ After producer Rock Demers launched the 'Tales for All' series of children's films in the 1980s, the film was retroactively incorporated into that series.][Ralph Lucas, [https://www.northernstars.ca/canadian-film-re-makes/ "Canadian Film Remakes"]. 'Northern Stars', July 30, 2019.]
'Canuxploitation', a film blog devoted to Canadian B-movies, wrote that the film was "easily the most insane example of Canadian children's cinema ever conceived. Nonsensical and embarrassingly low-budget, Le Martien de Nol wildly bounces from wacky action sequences to unrelated tangents, all highlighted by special effects even the most distracted seven year-old could see through. In other words, it's great!"[[http://www.canuxploitation.com/review/martien.html "Le Martien de Nol"]. 'Canuxploitation'.]
The film has occasionally been rebroadcast on television during the Christmas season, most commonly on science fiction channels.[Tony Atherton, "It's Christmastime on television". 'Ottawa Citizen', November 28, 2003.]
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