Marthe Blackburn
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Firewords (1986)
A documentary that offers an intimate glimpse of three respected yet controversial Québec writers. Now recognized at home and abroad, Louky...
Variations on Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman (1985)
In this short animation a single room is the setting for a lyrical dance through time about family roots. The objects in the room swirl, rearrange...
A Scream from Silence (1979)
A director and an editor, both women, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the...
They Called Us "Les Filles du Roy" (1974)
The history of the roles of women in Quebec society, beginning with the women shipped from France to the New World by the King to populate the colony...
Before the Time Comes (1975)
Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills,...
The Forties (1982)
A group of friends reunite after thirty years of separation.
Bye Bye Victor (1989)
Friendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home. The administrator says she...