Far from You Sweetheart
FrenchJe suis loin de toi mignonnne
Directed byClaude Fournier
Screenplay byDominique Michel
Denise Filiatrault
Claude Fournier
Produced byGerald Potterton
Claude Fournier
Pierre David
Tony Roman
Marie-José Raymond
StarringDominique Michel
Denise Filiatrault
CinematographyBernard Gosselin
Claude Fournier
Edited byClaude Fournier
Music byTony Roman
Ti-Blanc Richard
Production
companies
Rose Films
Les Productions Mutuelles
Distributed byLes Films Mutuelles
Release date
  • November 4, 1976 (1976-11-04)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Far from You Sweetheart (French: Je suis loin de toi mignonne) is a 1976 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Claude Fournier.[1] The film stars Dominique Michel and Denise Filiatrault as Rita and Florence, two sisters who are working in a munitions factory during World War II, while still dreaming of finding husbands and getting married.[2]

The cast also includes René Caron, Carole Dagenais, Denis Drouin, Bernard Gosselin, Juliette Huot, Marc Legault, Marcel Pothier, Gilles Renaud, Jean-Pierre Masson and Gilbert Sicotte.

Maurice Élia of the film magazine Séquences compared the film negatively to the 1975 wartime drama Bound for Glory (Partis pour la gloire), calling it a vulgar farce that wasn't actually funny enough to call it a comedy.[3] Writing for Le Devoir, André Leroux opined that Fournier had no idea how to construct a screenplay, a compelling plot or believable characters.[4] Despite its negative critical reception, however, the film was moderately successful at the Quebec box office,[4] and Michel later named it as one of the films she was most proud of in her career, in part because she had been directly involved in writing it.[5]

It was included in a retrospective of Michel's career at the Cinémathèque québécoise in 2017.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 75.
  2. 1 2 Vanessa Guimond, "Cinq films de Dodo à revoir". Le Journal de Montréal, October 26, 2017.
  3. ↑ Maurice Élia, "Cinéma canadien". Séquences, No. 87 (January 1977), p. 29–30.
  4. 1 2 Charles-Henri Ramond, "Je suis loin de toi Mignonne – Film de Claude Fournier". Films du Québec, February 8, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Dominique Michel célébrée par Éléphant". 7 Jours, November 9, 2017.


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