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The Cat in the Bag
1964
1 h 13 min
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Through the coming of age of a twenty-year-old man, this film symbolizes the political coming of age of the people of Québec. In French with English subtitles. Soundtrack album, John's Coltrane's Blue World, available from Impulse! / Universal Music Enterprises.
Through the coming of age of a twenty-year-old man, this film symbolizes the political coming of age of the people of Québec. In French with English subtitles.
Soundtrack album, John's Coltrane's Blue World, available from Impulse! / Universal Music Enterprises.
Soundtrack album, John's Coltrane's Blue World, available from Impulse! / Universal Music Enterprises.
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castBarbara UlrichClaude GodboutManon BlainVéronique VilbertJean-Paul BernierAndré LeblancPaul-Marie LapointeJean-V. DufresnePierre Maheu
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directorGilles Groulx
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producerJacques Bobet
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photographyJean-Claude Labrecque
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scriptGilles Groulx
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editingGilles Groulx
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soundMarcel Carrière
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sound editingMarguerite PayetteSidney Pearson
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re-recordingRoger LamoureuxMarcel Carrière
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musicJohn ColtraneAntonio VivaldiFrançois Couperin
Ages 14 to 17
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What are young Claude’s hopes and dreams? What divides Claude and Barbara? Which community does each character represent? What was the social and political context here in Quebec back when this feature was shot? How does this context play out in the film? The Cat in the Bag symbolizes the political coming-of-age of the people of Quebec in the 1960s.