Six interviews, one uncompromising visionary — meet the director who hated everything you love about movies.
This feature-length documentary brings together six of the rare television interviews given by Gilles Groulx between 1966 and 1983. Through these interviews, the filmmaker's ethical and aesthetic concerns are revealed. A striking coherence emerges in his thinking regarding his conception of cinema and the role the filmmaker should play in his culture and society.
Editing
Chouinard weaves six decades into one voice.
Production
Rare archival footage of a cinema giant.
Director
Denis Chouinard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Groulx's 1964 film 'Le Chat dans le sac' became the accidental manifesto of Quebec's Quiet Revolution cinema.
The NFB fired him twice; he kept coming back because nowhere else would fund his chaos.
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