Denys Arcand – Gina (1975)

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Gina (Céline Lomez), a Montreal striptease dancer, is sent by her agency to small-town Louisville to give a show at a local hotel. Also arriving in Louisville that same day are Bob Sauvageau (Claude Blanchard), leader of a gang of snowmobilers known as “Les Pinguins,” and a director (Gabriel Arcand) and a small crew of filmmakers from the Office National du Cinéma who are making a film on the oppressive working conditions at the local textile factory (a reference to Arcand’s own NFB-banned documentary On est au coton). The friendly relationship that is established between Gina and the filmmakers upsets the snowmobilers, while the filmmakers, having persuaded the manager of the factory to allow them to film, are discovering a long history of alienation and submission among the workers.

In the evening, as Gina gives her first performance, tension grows between her and the snowmobilers. That night Gina is alone in her room when one of the snowmobilers breaks in and rapes her. She decides to answer violence with violence and with the help of her manager and his friends she attacks the snowmobilers. After gaining violent retribution, she returns to Montreal, then flies to Mexico. Meanwhile, the filmmakers have been taken off the film by their producer following protests by the company and end up making a police thriller.

Denys Arcand’s extraordinary fatalistic dirge on life in Quebec might well have been subtitled “victimization as the inevitable condition of society.” Less overtly political than Réjeanne Padovani (1973), though equally about powerlessness, Gina draws ironic parallels between the documentary and fiction modes and between various kinds of alienation, defeat and submissiveness. An incisive indictment of class divisions in Quebec society, it speaks of humanity’s shared servitude, and offers no hope of a political solution. Gina has been aptly called “the most underrated of Arcand’s films” by NOW magazine film critic John Harkness, but also marked a turning point in Arcand’s career – he turned away from personal fiction films for the next ten years. The film’s spectacular violent denouement, which might seem reminiscent of the work of Sam Peckinpah, reflects Arcand’s view that violence is inevitable in a senselessly brutal society.

Denys Arcand - (1975) Gina.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 35 min
Size: 	2.62 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x576 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 330 kb/s
BPP: 	0.235
Audio
#1:  	French 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Stereo)
#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Alternate English language audio track)
#3:  	2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Audio commentary featuring author/film historian Kier-La Janisse and writer/film programmer Justine Smith)

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Language(s):French, English
Subtitles:English