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Where Are You? (1970) [N/A]

Featuring:
Jean-Claude Bernard, Diane Bernatchez, Georges Dor

Written by:
Gilles Groulx

Directed by:
Gilles Groulx


Release Date:
February 22, 1970

Original Title:
Où êtes-vous donc?

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
ONF | NFB

Production Countries:
Canada

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 96

Overview from TheMovieDB

This experimental feature-length drama by Gilles Groulx follows three main characters who embody different attitudes about consumerism. A window onto Quebec in the late 1960s, this protest film explores these characters’ daily lives, their trials and aspirations. Where Are You? is an innovative and militant work, buoyed by hard-hitting film language that includes subtitles and intertitles, quotations, offscreen voices and songs and references to advertising.

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Overview from Open Movies

-Georges, a man in his thirties, leaves his home on the North Shore of Quebec to get a fresh start in Montreal (Canada). Along the way, on an icy road, he meets Christian, a trucker in his twenties and the two become friends. Christian finds Georges' plan appealing and decides to accompany him to the big city. Once in Montreal, they take on odd jobs to make ends meet and participate in various social events. They meet a young woman named Mouffe who is on the verge of suicide because her husband left her. The trio discover they all have something in common: they want to pursue a career in music. While Christian and Mouffe desire fame and fortune and everything superficial that comes along with it, Georges is more interested in creating art and expressing himself. Determined to stay true to himself, Georges begins to worry that he's losing his friends to the allure of a consumer society.

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Rankings and Honors

Where Are You? (1970) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 6.9/10

Performers

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Production

Director:
Gilles Groulx

Director of Photography:
Thomas Vámos

Editor:
Gilles Groulx

Original Music Composer:
Stéphane Venne

Producer:
Guy L. Coté

Writer:
Gilles Groulx

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