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Article: Images of the rural: the cinema of Quebec.
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- CineAction
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- March 22, 2006
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In 1964 when Gilles Groulx made Le Chat dans le sac, he defined for Quebec the sensibility of a generation. Although Pierre Perrault's Pour la suite du monde and Claude Jutra's A tout prendre appeared at about the same time, it was Groulx's film that spoke to the politicized French Canadians who were soon to become Quebecois.
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The film presents the story of Claude/Claude Godbout, a young urban intellectual who is discontented with his life as a French Canadian but doesn't know what to do about it. Impatience is his response to everything he encounters--impatience and intolerance. Like the protagonist in Jacques Godbout's novel, Le ...