Q-Bec My Love

Q-Bec My Love (French: Un succès commercial, ou Q-Bec My Love) is a Canadian film, directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre and released in 1970.[1] A satirical allegory for Quebec nationalism,[2] the film is depicted in disconnected vignettes which portray the professional, sexual and romantic relationships of Q-Bec (Anne Lauriault) with her boss Peter Ottawa (Denis Payne), her husband Jean-Baptiste Bilingue (Jean-Pierre Cartier) and her lover Sam Washington (Larry Kent).[3]

Q-Bec My Love
Un succès commercial, ou Q-Bec My Love
Directed byJean Pierre Lefebvre
Produced byMarguerite Duparc
Written byJean Pierre Lefebvre
StarringAnne Lauriault
Denis Payne
Jean-Pierre Cartier
Larry Kent
Music byAndrée Paul
CinematographyThomas Vámos
Edited byMarguerite Duparc
Production
company
Cinak
Distributed byFaroun Films
Release date
1970
Running time
83 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Awards

The film was historically most noted for setting off a crisis in the Canadian Film Awards, when Lefebvre threatened to withdraw the film from the competition if the Ontario Censor Board did not withdraw its demand for the film's explicit sexuality to be edited.[4] Several other filmmakers were also prepared to withdraw in solidarity, although provincial cabinet minister James Auld intervened to dissuade the board from insisting on the cuts.[4] The film screening went ahead, but film directors from Quebec continued to perceive a systemic bias against them; in 1973, a number of Quebec filmmakers entirely boycotted the awards.[5] This later protest resulted in the last-minute cancellation of the 1973 awards ceremony, with the winners announced only at a press conference, and the complete cancellation of the 1974 awards.

References
  1. Gerald Pratley, Torn Sprockets: The Uncertain Projection of the Canadian Film. University of Delaware Press, 1987. ISBN 9780874131949. p. 195.
  2. "Quebec film makers look to the commercial". The Globe and Mail, August 7, 1970.
  3. "Q-Bec my love – Film de Jean Pierre Lefebvre". Films du Québec, March 9, 2014.
  4. "Canadian Film Awards copes with string of crises". The Globe and Mail, September 28, 1970.
  5. "Rebirth of the film awards". The Globe and Mail, October 2, 1975.


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