Wow (film)

Wow
Wow
Directed by	Claude Jutra
Written by	Danielle Bail; Pierre Charpentier
Produced by	Robert Forget
Starring	Danielle Bail; Pierre Charpentier; Philippe Dubé; Dave Gold; Marc Harvey; François Jasmin; Michèle Mercure; Philippe Raoul; Monique Simard
Cinematography	Gilles Gascon; André-Luc Dupont
Edited by	Claire Boyer; Yves Dion; Claude Jutra
Music by	Pierre F. Brault; Jim Solkin
Distributed by	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	1969;
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French
Budget	$171,886

Wow is a 1969 Québécois film directed by Claude Jutra, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

Synopsis edit

Claude Jutra's first feature-length film is an improvised docudrama about the lives and dreams of nine Montreal young people. The film is made up of nine separate episodes, each one expressing a particular fantasy of one member of the group. This exuberant, low-budget effort, shot in the style of the French New Wave films, provides hints of Jutra's immense talents as a director.^[2]

Production edit

Subjects in the film included some participants Jutra had worked with in his 1966 mockumentary film The Devil's Toy (Rouli-roulant), a faux-anti-skateboarding propaganda film.^[3]

Sequel edit

Thirty years after the production of Wow, the NFB co-produced a sequel Wow 2, using the same concept of adolescents acting out their dreams. [1] This film was directed by Jean-Philippe Duval and co-produced by Monique Simard [fr], who was a participant in the original film.

References edit

^ Evans 1991, p. 154.
^ Clandfield, David (1987). Canadian Film. Toronto: Oxford University Press. p. 64. ISBN 0-19-540581-1.
^ Leach, Jim (1 September 1999). Claude Jutra: Filmmaker. McGill-Queen's Press. pp. 99–100. ISBN 978-0773518599.