Far from You Sweetheart (French: Je suis loin de toi mignonne) is a 1976 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Claude Fournier.[1] The film stars Dominique Michel and Denise Filiatrault as Rita and Florence, two sisters who are working in a munitions factory during World War II, while still dreaming of finding husbands and getting married.[2]
| Far from You Sweetheart | |
|---|---|
| French | Je suis loin de toi mignonnne |
| Directed by | Claude Fournier |
| Screenplay by | Dominique Michel Denise Filiatrault Claude Fournier |
| Produced by | Gerald Potterton Claude Fournier Pierre David Tony Roman Marie-José Raymond |
| Starring | Dominique Michel Denise Filiatrault |
| Cinematography | Bernard Gosselin Claude Fournier |
| Edited by | Claude Fournier |
| Music by | Tony Roman Ti-Blanc Richard |
Production companies | Rose Films Les Productions Mutuelles |
| Distributed by | Les Films Mutuelles |
Release date |
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Running time | 109 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
The cast also includes René Caron, Carole Dagenais, Denis Drouin, Bernard Gosselin, Juliette Huot, Marc Legault, Marcel Pothier, Gilles Renaud, Jean-Pierre Masson and Gilbert Sicotte.
Maurice Élia of the film magazine Séquences compared the film negatively to the 1975 wartime drama Bound for Glory (Partis pour la gloire), calling it a vulgar farce that wasn't actually funny enough to call it a comedy.[3] Writing for Le Devoir, André Leroux opined that Fournier had no idea how to construct a screenplay, a compelling plot or believable characters.[4] Despite its negative critical reception, however, the film was moderately successful at the Quebec box office,[4] and Michel later named it as one of the films she was most proud of in her career, in part because she had been directly involved in writing it.[5]
It was included in a retrospective of Michel's career at the Cinémathèque québécoise in 2017.[2]
References edit
- ^ Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 75.
- ^ a b Vanessa Guimond, "Cinq films de Dodo à revoir". Le Journal de Montréal, October 26, 2017.
- ^ Maurice Élia, "Cinéma canadien". Séquences, No. 87 (January 1977), p. 29–30.
- ^ a b Charles-Henri Ramond, "Je suis loin de toi Mignonne – Film de Claude Fournier". Films du Québec, February 8, 2009.
- ^ "Dominique Michel célébrée par Éléphant". 7 Jours, November 9, 2017.
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