Comfort and Indifference

Comfort and Indifference (French: Le confort et l'indifférence) is a 1982 documentary film by Denys Arcand, offering an analysis of the 1980 Quebec referendum, in which "sovereignty-association" was defeated as a first step to eventual secession from Canada. The film takes the position that the referendum result was a failure of courage and that the Québécois were numbed by prosperity and the explicitly Machiavellian manipulations of federalist leaders.

Comfort and Indifference
FrenchLe confort et l'indifférence
Directed byDenys Arcand
Produced by
  • Jean Dansereau
  • Roger Frappier
Starring
CinematographyAlain Dostie
Edited byPierre Bernier
Release date
  • 7 February 1982 (1982-02-07)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench
Budget$483,675

Production edit

The film had a budget of $483,675 (equivalent to $1,383,604 in 2021.[1]

Works cited edit

  • Evans, Gary (1991). In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0802027849.

External links edit


  1. ^ Evans 1991, p. 265.