2012-06-23

The Best Films of the Province of Québec


Celebrating the St. Jean Baptiste, June 24th, in Québec is like our 4th of July for Americans or our Bastille Day for the French. For this event, I wanted to give you a list of the most respected films made in our North-eastern Province of North America. The feature Je me souviens that I’ve been pursuing for the past months, in fact it is more on hiatus than anything for now, celebrates the films of Québec. In the nest months I will be continuing my travel into the heritage of the Cinema of my home. Completing those lists will be one of my blogging goals of the second half of 2012.

Here are three lists of the best films made in the Province of Québec (click on the links to read the reviews of the films):


The public’s list
  1. Le déclin de l'empire américain (Denys Arcand, 1986)
  2. Jésus de Montréal (Denys Arcand, 1989)
  3. Un zoo, la nuit (Jean-Claude Lauzon, 1987)
  4. Mon oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra, 1971)
  5. L'homme qui plantait des arbres (Frédéric Back, 1987)
  6. Les bons débarras (Francis Mankiewicz, 1980)
  7. Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon, 1992)
  8. J. A. Martin, photographe (Jean Beaudin, 1976)
  9. Being at Home with Claude (Jean Beaudin, 1991)
  10. Les ordres (Michel Brault, 1974)
The critics’ list
  1. Mon oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra, 1971)
  2. Les ordres (Michel Brault, 1974)
  3. Les bons débarras (Francis Mankiewicz, 1980)
  4. Le déclin de l'empire américain (Denys Arcand, 1986)
  5. Pour la suite du monde (Pierre Perrault, Marcel Carrière et Michel Brault, 1963)
  6. À tout prendre (Claude Jutra, 1963)
  7. Jésus de Montréal (Denys Arcand, 1989)
  8. Le chat dans le sac (Gilles Groulx, 1964)
  9. Au clair de la lune (André Forcier, 1982)
  10. L'eau chaude, l'eau frette (André Forcier, 1976)
The Quebecor critics’ list
  1. Mon oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra, 1971)
  2. Le déclin de l'empire américain (Denys Arcand, 1986)
  3. Les bons débarras (Francis Mankiewicz, 1980)
  4. Jésus de Montréal (Denys Arcand, 1989)
  5. Les ordres (Michel Brault, 1974)
  6. Un zoo, la nuit (Jean-Claude Lauzon, 1987)
  7. Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon, 1992)
  8. J. A. Martin, photographe (Jean Beaudin, 1976)
  9. Pour la suite du monde (Pierre Perrault, Marcel Carrière et Michel Brault, 1963)
  10. Au clair de la lune (André Forcier, 1982)
Source: Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois.

 What do you think of those lists? How many films have you seen? Which ones?

4 comments:

  1. This isn't related to your post, but I don't think you'll mind. I managed to track down a working copy of the hard to find Too Early Too Late. I've posted the links on the Compendium. They are good for no more than a month, and possibly much less, so I suggest you get them as soon as you can.

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  2. Can't really give an opinion on the lists as I've only seen the two Arcand films. But I'll be using this post to refer to whenever I decide to do a Quebec feature.

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    1. Great! I also have some catch up to do myself!

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