Two Women in Gold

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Two Women in Gold
French Deux femmes en or
Directed by Claude Fournier
Written byClaude Fournier
Marie-José Raymond
Produced byClaude Fournier
Pierre Lamy
Starring Monique Mercure
Louise Turcot
CinematographyClaude Fournier
Edited byClaude Fournier
Music by Robert Charlebois
Production
company
Les Films Claude Fournier
Distributed byFrance Film
Release date
  • May 21, 1970 (1970-05-21)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench
Budget$225,000
Box office$4 million

Two Women in Gold (French : Deux femmes en or) is a Canadian sex comedy film, directed by Claude Fournier and released in 1970. [1]

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Plot

Fernande Turcot and Violette Lamoureux are two housewives in suburban Brossard, Quebec, who are trapped in unfulfilling marriages to husbands Yvon and Bob, and deal with their frustrations by beginning to have casual sex with the delivery or repair men who come to their houses.

Cast

Production

Two Women in Gold was filmed from 24 November 1969, to 9 January 1970, on a budget of $225,000 (equivalent to $1,741,256in 2023). The French version was 107 minutes and 20 seconds long while the English dub was reduced to 90 minutes and 30 seconds. [2]

Release

The film was released in Montreal on 21 May 1970, by France Film and grossed $4 million (equivalent to $30,955,665in 2023). [2] [3]

Reception

Although not immediately popular with critics, the film was a significant commercial success, making at least $2 million at the box office in its initial run. [4] Its success was part of a wave of films that reignited the commercial viability of the Cinema of Quebec, following a number of fallow years in the late 1960s. [5] As of 2020, it was still recognized as one of the most commercially successful films in Quebec's cinematic history. [6]

In 2022, Chloé Robichaud received a grant from Quebec's Société de développement des entreprises culturelles to produce a contemporary remake of the film, slated for release in 2024. [7]

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References

  1. Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN   1-894073-21-5. p. 227.
  2. 1 2 Turner 1987, p. 95.
  3. Melnyk 2004, p. 137.
  4. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Deux femmes en or – Film de Claude Fournier". Films du Québec, January 19, 2009.
  5. Malcolm Reid, "Quebec film makers look to the commercial". The Globe and Mail , August 7, 1970.
  6. André Duchesne, "Deux femmes en or: au-delà des parties de fesses". La Presse , May 16, 2020.
  7. Maxime Demers, "Une nouvelle version de Deux femmes en or financée par la SODEC". Le Journal de Montréal , December 19, 2022.

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