Wow_(film)
Wow (film)
1969 Canadian film
Wow is a 1969 Québécois film directed by Claude Jutra, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
| Wow | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Claude Jutra |
| Written by | Danielle Bail Pierre Charpentier |
| Produced by | Robert Forget |
| Starring | Danielle Bail Pierre Charpentier Philippe Dubé Dave Gold Marc Harvey François Jasmin Michèle Mercure Philippe Raoul Monique Simard |
| Cinematography | Gilles Gascon André-Luc Dupont |
| Edited by | Claire Boyer Yves Dion Claude Jutra |
| Music by | Pierre F. Brault Jim Solkin |
| Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $171,886[1] |
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]
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]
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. This film was directed by Jean-Philippe Duval and co-produced by Monique Simard [fr], who was a participant in the original film.
- Evans 1991, p. 154.
- Clandfield, David (1987). Canadian Film. Toronto: Oxford University Press. p. 64. ISBN 0-19-540581-1.
- Leach, Jim (1 September 1999). Claude Jutra: Filmmaker. McGill-Queen's Press. pp. 99–100. ISBN 978-0773518599.
