May 15 Montréal Claude Jutra's film […]
When
1964-05-15
Description
May 15 Montréal Claude Jutra's film À tout prendre/Take It All opened at the Saint-Denis and Bijou theatres. A first-person, autobiographical narrative filmed between 1961 and 1963, À tout prendre was the first feature film made in Québec to explore a homosexual theme. It starred Jutra, Johanne Harrelle, and Victor Désy, and was shown at the Festival International du Film in Montréal in August 1963. English subtitles (written by Leonard Cohen) were added later.
All Places
Theatre Saint-DenisMontrealAll People
Leonard CohenVictor DésyJohanne HarrelleClaude JutraAll Monograph
À tout prendre/Take It AllAll Citations
Thomas Waugh, "Négres blancs, tapettes et 'butch': les lesbiennes et les gais dans le cinéma québécois," Copie Zéro, no. 11 (1981), pp. 13, 22-24.D.J. Turner and Micheline Morisset, eds., Canadian Feature Film Index, 1913-1985/Index des films canadiens de long métrage (Ottawa: Public Archives, National Film, Television, and Sound Archives, 1987), entry 151Prat., "À tout prendre ("When All Is Said.....)," Variety, 28 August 1963, p. 18Michel Patenaude, Review, Objectif 63, no. 23-24 (1963), pp. 41-43Sy Oshinsky, "Take It All," Motion Picture Herald, 11 May 1966, pp. 519-20Denys Arcand, "Cinema et sexuality," Parti pris, no. 9-11 (1964), pp. 94-97
