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Wow (film)

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Wow
Directed byClaude Jutra
Written byDanielle Bail
Pierre Charpentier
Produced byRobert Forget
StarringDanielle Bail
Pierre Charpentier
Philippe Dubé
Dave Gold
Marc Harvey
François Jasmin
Michèle Mercure
Philippe Raoul
Monique Simard
CinematographyGilles Gascon
André-Luc Dupont
Edited byClaire Boyer
Yves Dion
Claude Jutra
Music byPierre F. Brault
Jim Solkin
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • 1969 (1969)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench
Budget$171,886[1]

Wow is a 1969 Québécois film directed by Claude Jutra, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

Synopsis

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Claude Jutra's first feature-length film is an improvised docudrama about the lives and dreams of nine Montreal young people. The film is made up of nine separate episodes, each one expressing a particular fantasy of one member of the group. This exuberant, low-budget effort, shot in the style of the French New Wave films, provides hints of Jutra's immense talents as a director.[2]

Production

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Subjects in the film included some participants Jutra had worked with in his 1966 mockumentary film The Devil's Toy (Rouli-roulant), a faux-anti-skateboarding propaganda film.[3]

Sequel

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Thirty years after the production of Wow, the NFB co-produced a sequel Wow 2, using the same concept of adolescents acting out their dreams. [1] This film was directed by Jean-Philippe Duval and co-produced by Monique Simard [fr], who was a participant in the original film.

References

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  1. ^ Evans 1991, p. 154.
  2. ^ Clandfield, David (1987). Canadian Film. Toronto: Oxford University Press. p. 64. ISBN 0-19-540581-1.
  3. ^ Leach, Jim (1 September 1999). Claude Jutra: Filmmaker. McGill-Queen's Press. pp. 99–100. ISBN 978-0773518599.

Works cited

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  • Wow at IMDb
  • Watch Wow at the National Film Board of Canada (in French)