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- ↑ "Plouffe, Les – Film de Gilles Carle". Films du Québec, March 9, 2009.
- ↑ Marshall 2001, p. 180.
- 1 2 Turner 1987, p. 348.
- ↑ Marshall 2001, p. 85.
