February 28 Montréal André […]

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1974-02-28

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February 28 Montréal André Brassard's film Il était une fois dans l'est / Once Upon a Time in the East premiered at the Fleur-de-Lys theatre. Starring Denise Filiatrault, Michelle Rossignol, and Frédérique Collin, the film's screenplay was by Brassard and Michel Tremblay. Adapted from some of Tremblay's works, the film presented connected stories of a working-class housewife and a bar populated by lesbians and gays. Some of Tremblay's greatest characters appeared in the work, including Hosanna, Cuirette, and the Duchess de Langeais. Ilitait unefois dans l'est was shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21,1974.

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Montreal

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Michel Tremblay Frédérique Collin Michelle Rossignol Denise Filiatrault André Brassard

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Il était une fois dans l'est / Once Upon a Time in the East

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Thomas Waugh, "Négres blancs, tapettes et 'butch': les lesbiennes et les gais dans le cinéma québécois," Copie Zéro, no, 11 (1981), pp, 19, 25-27.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 489;J.P. Tadros, "André Brassard: comment passer de theatre au cinema," Cinéma Québec (February-March 1974), pp. 28-32;(G.) Mosk(owitz)., " Il était une fois dans l'est (Once Upon a Time in the East)," Variety, 15 May 1974, p, 24;Mark Miller, "Il était une fois dans l'est. Dreams and Despair on the Main," Cinema Canada, no, 20 (1975), pp. 65-66;Martin Knelman, "The World of Michel on the Screen," Globe and Mail, metro ed,, 3 May 1975, p, 31;"Face a face cannois: Brassard-Tremblay s'expliquent" (interview), Cinéma Québec 3 (June-July 1974): 21-23;M. Bélair, "D'un oratorio sacré ou peut-etre profane," Cinéma Québec i (April-May 1974): 39-42;

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André Brassard

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