Comfort and indifference

Film pivot in the work of Denys Arcand between its more formal period and its cinema more normalized, Comfort and the indifference (1981) is besides the work of the scenario writer in whom the figure of the cynical intellectual makes his appearance, Machiavel.

The film, powerful, carries all the disappointment of the nationalist intellectual elites in front of the absence of the nationalist desire of the population, population that the film presents at the same time like amndt by North-American comfort, and victim of the control of the money and Ottawa. This film is, in certain scenes, heralding the popular figure of Elvis Gratton.

It will be also the occasion of a return semi-amused semi-land-mark over certain strong moments of the work of Arcand and the direct Cinéma, with the presence of certain important film protagonists, made during the Années 1960 and the Années 1970, of ONF.

Distribution

Jean-Pierre Ronfard: Nicolas Machiavel
Raymond Barre: Itself (Prime Minister of France)
Monique Bégin: Itself (Camp of not)
Pierre Embroiderer: Itself (Quebec-Canada Movement, Camp of not)
Maurice Chaillot: Itself (Garden of Montreal, Camp of yes)
Reggie Chartrand: Itself (Boxer, Camp of yes)
Jean Chrétien: Itself (Camp of not)
Paul Desmarais: Itself (Camp of not)
Jean Flag: Itself (Mayor of the town of Montreal, Extract of the sequence of the Stanley cut)
Irene Fournaris: Itself (Camp of yes)
Emile Genest: Itself (Camp of not)
Valery Giscard d'Estaing: Itself (President of the French Republic)
Gerald Godin: Itself (Camp of yes)
Ronald Jones: Itself (Former professional boxer, Camp of not)
Réal Laflamme: Itself (Farmer of Holy-Rosalie, Camp of not)
Guy Lafleur: Itself, (Extracted the sequence of the Stanley cut)
Hauris Lalancette: Itself (Farmer, Camp of yes)
Monique Lalancette: Itself (Woman farmer, Camp of yes)
Bernard Landry: Itself (Camp of yes)
Therese Laramé: Itself (Cinémathécaire, Montreal, Camp of not)
Guy Lebeau: Itself (Cabinetmaker of Daveluyville, Camp of yes)
Jacques Lemieux: Itself (Cabinetmaker of Saint-Jerusalem, Camp of yes)
Rene Lévesque: Itself (Prime Minister for Quebec, Camp of yes)
Commercial Jean: Itself (Camp of not)
Claude Morin: Itself (Camp of yes)
Romeo Pérusse: Itself, (Referee of the match of boxing on sovereignty)
Queen Elizabeth II: Itself
Michel Rivard: Itself (Candidate of the party Rhinoceros, sequence of files)
Claude Ryan: Itself (Camp of not)
Camil Samson: Itself (Camp of not)
Serge A. Savard: Itself, (Extracted the sequence of the Stanley cut)
Michelle Tisseyre: Itself (Camp of not)
Mario Tremblay: Itself (Extracted the sequence of the Stanley cut)
Pierre Trudeau: Itself (Prime Minister of Canada, Camp of not)
Irene Typaldos: Itself (Welfare worker of Montreal, Camp of not)

External bonds

'' Comfort and the indifference '' on Internet Movie Database

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