Far from You Sweetheart

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Far from You Sweetheart
French Je suis loin de toi mignonnne
Directed by Claude Fournier
Screenplay by Dominique Michel
Denise Filiatrault
Claude Fournier
Produced by Gerald Potterton
Claude Fournier
Pierre David
Tony Roman
Marie-José Raymond
StarringDominique Michel
Denise Filiatrault
CinematographyBernard Gosselin
Claude Fournier
Edited byClaude Fournier
Music byTony Roman
Ti-Blanc Richard
Production
companies
Rose Films
Les Productions Mutuelles
Distributed byLes Films Mutuelles
Release date
  • November 4, 1976 (1976-11-04)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Far from You Sweetheart (French : Je suis loin de toi mignonne) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Claude Fournier and released in 1976. [1] The film stars Dominique Michel and Denise Filiatrault as Rita and Florence, two sisters who are working in a munitions factory during World War II, while still dreaming of finding husbands and getting married. [2]

The cast also includes René Caron, Carole Dagenais, Denis Drouin, Bernard Gosselin, Juliette Huot, Marc Legault, Marcel Pothier, Gilles Renaud, Jean-Pierre Masson and Gilbert Sicotte.

Maurice Élia of the film magazine Séquences compared the film negatively to the 1975 wartime drama Bound for Glory (Partis pour la gloire), calling it a vulgar farce that wasn't actually funny enough to call it a comedy. [3] Writing for Le Devoir , André Leroux opined that Fournier had no idea how to construct a screenplay, a compelling plot or believable characters. [4] Despite its negative critical reception, however, the film was moderately successful at the Quebec box office, [4] and Michel later named it as one of the films she was most proud of in her career, in part because she had been directly involved in writing it. [5]

It was included in a retrospective of Michel's career at the Cinémathèque québécoise in 2017. [2]

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References

  1. Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN   1-894073-21-5. p. 75.
  2. 1 2 Vanessa Guimond, "Cinq films de Dodo à revoir". Le Journal de Montréal , October 26, 2017.
  3. Maurice Élia, "Cinéma canadien". Séquences , No. 87 (January 1977), p. 29–30.
  4. 1 2 Charles-Henri Ramond, "Je suis loin de toi Mignonne – Film de Claude Fournier". Films du Québec, February 8, 2009.
  5. "Dominique Michel célébrée par Éléphant". 7 Jours, November 9, 2017.