Un succès commercial (1970) - full transcript
In this satire of sexuality in the entertainment industry and voyeurism, a woman maintains 3 romantic relationships simultaneously: with her husband, with her boss, and with her lover.
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The digitization and restoration of this film remain faithful
to the body and spirit of the original work.
They have been made possible by funding from
to children and those who
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Anybody around?
- Don't know. Where are we?
Don't know. Home,
in our beautiful Quebec,
or in Canada,
or in USA, or in Europe,
or in a Communist country...
- You've got fuckin' ideas!
Hey!
You there in the toilets,
put out your smokes 'n come
'n see the movie!
'N you in the back there
to grope your girlfriends'
asses. Move forward.
You're not on television here.
START
CINAK PRESENTS
A revolution
mustn't start
where others have ended
nor end where others start.
But must a revolution be political?
Or sexual?
Or both at the time?
You understand?!
SO
CINAK PRESENTS
A COMMERCIAL SUCCESS
A NATIONALIST TRAGEDY
AND A UNIVERSAL COMEDY
We wish to thank Suzanne Olivier, Yvon Malette, Pierre Hébert, the
Conseil québécois pour la diffusion du cinéma
and the Galerie Place Royale
Only...
Only humour isn't pornographic.
Only humour isn't...
Only humour isn't pornographic.
Only humour isn't por...
Only... humour...
isn't pornographic.
On November 8th, 1969,
when the following sequence
was shot,
the following people occupied
the following positions:
Pierre Elliott Trudeau,
Prime Minister of Canada,
Liberal Party.
Jean-Jacques Bertrand,
Prime Minister of Québec,
Union Nationale.
Jean Drapeau, Mayor of Montréal.
Richard Nixon,
President of the United States.
There's nothing fictitious
about those persons.
Even though their names
will soon belong
to the small or big fiction
of history.
If I name them,
it's to remind you that
those men speak
and act on your behalf.
It's also to remind you
that you make them live
and let them survive
or you will kill them.
So it is with porn movies.
Let's recall finally the result
of last night's demonstration
on November 7th,
organized to protest against
the growing climate
of political
repression in Québec
and to demand
the liberation
of Pierre Vallières
and Charles Gagnon,
the resignation of Québec's Minister
of Justice, Rémi Paul,
and the withdrawal of Bill 63
Some 2,500 took part
in this demonstration.
The police, numbering more than
1,000,
could watch
the comings and goings
of the demonstrators
through closed circuit television.
Some ten Molotov cocktails
were launched.
Few arrests were made.
PERSONAL FILE
Note...
From yesterday,
today and tomorrow,
every guilty person
will be punished
and the punished ones
will be guilty
till
the end
of their life.
No man, no woman
will escape
from the destiny
of any political movement:
left, right, center,
back or front.
Revolution and anti-revolution,
morality and immorality,
decency and indecency,
photography and pornography,
censor and anticensor,
God and Satan,
living dead and stillborn,
politicians and drunkards,
homosexuals and lesbians,
cats and rats,
clowns and bleeding hearts,
officials and hippies,
nothing nor anyone
will escape from the power
of opposites,
from the politico-erotic split
of cosmic instinct.
That's all.
From yesterday,
today and tomorrow,
every guilty person
will be punished
and the punished ones will be guilty
till the end of their life.
No man, no woman
will escape from the destiny of
any political movement:
left, right, center,
back or front.
Revolution and anti-revolution,
morality and immorality,
decency and indecency,
photography and pornography,
censor and anti-censor,
God and Satan,
living dead and stillborn,
politicians and drunkards,
homosexuals and lesbians,
cats and rats,
clowns and bleeding hearts,
officials and hippies,
nothing nor anyone
will escape from the power
of opposites,
from the politico-erotic split
of cosmic instinct.
Here's Canada.
Canada: second widest country,
with 3.8 millions square miles,
It's the world's
second largest country,
more than half of the
North American continent,
with five important
geographic regions.
Because the French Canadians
have retained
their language and traditions
after the conquest of Quebec
by the English,
French Canada has
a particular cultural life.
Most of the French Canadians
live in Quebec.
The English-speaking population
has grown through immigration
British and American immigration
did that more than 3.5 millions
of Canadians today
are descendants of
Scotch and Irish.
Many are descendants
of the first American settlers
who came to Canada
during the American revolution.
In the beginning, Canada was
inhabited by Asiatic tribes
which could have crossed
the Bering Strait
some few thousand years ago.
The Eskimos and the Indians
are descendants of them.
The name “Canada" probably dates
back to those first inhabitants.
The Hurons-Iroquois used
the word "Kanata"
to signify a colony.
The true founder and colonizer
of French Canada,
Samuel de Champlain,
was impressed by
the quality of the furs
exchanged with kind Indians.
From 1604 to 1634,
he established
small colonies
of French pioneers.
The first attempts by the English to found colonies
date back to 1628.
Canada has
parliamentary government
since British North America Act
in 1867
which declares that Canada
will have one parliament
composed of the Queen,
the Senate,
and the House of Commons.
Prologue #1.
God created woman.
Man invented the key.
From this day
the doors multiplied.
And came cinema,
inventing the key hole.
Prologue #2.
CANADIAN OCEAN
My name is Q-Bec.
I am 434 years old.
I was discovered in 1535.
In 1608,
Samuel de Champlain,
after seeing my Diamond Cape,
lands on me and clears
a part of my virgin forest.
In Indian, my name means
"narrow passage''.
One day, Samuel told me...
One day, Samuel told me...
The conversion of an unbeliever!
- "The conversion of an unbeliever
is by far better than
the conquest of an empire."
That's how he killed
two birds with one stone,
establishing God's empire
through conversion.
However, Champlain enters me
more and more
and sails the Ottawa River
up to Ottawa, the capital of Canada.
Left alone by my lover,
I welcome missionaries,
trappers and Indians.
In 1642,
I move to Ville-Marie
with de Maisonneuve,
who said that now famous word:
"If all the trees of Montreal
should become women,
it is an obligation for me
to fecundate a colony,
and I will."
For a while,
nothing special:
new explorations,
widening of the territory...
I have to wait till 1690,
to feel new sensations
when Admiral Phipps
tries to rape me.
But Frontenac is there
ready to shoot.
However, in 1759,
what was up came down,
while my drill-ground of Abraham
was bleeding.
Then,
after my Lower and Upper Canada,
I underwent a hysterectomy in 1867.
Result: the birth of
the assembly of fools.
Little by little, I spread
from an ocean to the other.
I fool around with anybody,
anytime, always,
as long as it pays,
with the communists, the fascists,
the imperialists,
and the English Canadians.
SEA OF SARCASMS
Only
humour
isn't
pornographic.
Saint Narcissus
pray for us
Saint Nicephore
pray for us
Saint Pacôme
pray for us
Saint Rose
pray for us
Saint Éleuthère
pray for us
Saint-Magloire...
Pray for us.
Sainte-Gertrude...
Pray for us.
Saint-Guy...
Pray for us.
Saint-Éleuthère...
Pray for us.
Sainte-Anne-des-Monts...
Pray for us.
Sainte-Blandine...
Pray for us.
Saint-Lambert...
Pray for us.
Saint-Jude...
Pray for us.
Saint-Fortunat...
Pray for us.
Saint-Éleuthère...
Pray for us.
Saint-Agapit...
Pray for us.
Sainte-Agathe...
Pray for us.
Saint-Nicéphore...
Pray for us.
Saint-Prime...
Pray for us.
Saint-Hilarion...
Pray for us.
Saint-Lin...
Pray for us.
Saint-Liboire...
Pray for us.
Saint-Edwige...
Pray for us.
Saint-Henri...
Pray for us.
Let the holy will of Quebec be...
Amen.
Cut!
Do you want to know
what is nationalism?
I'll tell you.
It's a woman who doesn't want
to change her bra
even though
her breasts increase.
Intermission
in order to portray truth.
The body who would never be used
as an instrument...
Married love
reveals its true nature
and its true...
...of full time job would
resexualize.
Regression...
...nobility considered
in its essence...
...of full time job
implicated in such a development
of libido is evi...
God, who is love,
father and paternity...
...first with the activation
of all zones...
...his name,
in heaven and on earth.
...erotic,
and so the rebirth of sexuality...
...so marriage isn't an accident...
...pre-genital
and by the decline
of supremacy...
...product of the evolution of
unconscious natural strength.
Something to have an orgasm,
an instrument of pleasure.
It's a wise institution
of the Creator
to realize that...
transformation of the value
and the extent of relations...
humanity, his design for love
through the lustful dona...
...would lead to the disintegration
of institutions.
Spouses tend towards
the communion of their beings...
in which private,
interpersonal relations have...
This perspective seems to confirm
the forecast according to which...
With God, the generation
and education of a new life.
Genital to the eroticization
of the whole personality.
This...
the union of Christ
and the Church.
End of the intermission.
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Only humour
isn't pornographic.
NINE MONTHS LATER
Only humour
isn't pornographic.
You know,
international politics
is no women's business.
Q-BEC HAD TO FADE OUT
AND PLUG A QUEBECER
Me. Quebec to Quebecers.
We're stuck together.
Quebec to Quebecers. Me.
They're all stuck together.
Quebec to Quebecers.
EPISODES OF A NATIONALIST LIFE
My name is
Jean-Baptiste Bilingual.
I have no age.
And you want to know
what I'm fed up.
Here or elsewhere, who cares,
it's the same fuckin' thing.
Everything's the same.
Some fuck, others watch them.
Some make laws, and others suffer.
I'll tell you all about it
and smack it
right into your face.
And don't you try to tell me
how to speak.
or that I won't be understood
in gay Paree
Don't you fuckin' try, you bugger,
to tell me I swear,
that it's ugly and
that I will be censured
for Christ's sake.
I'm not drunk and we're just alike.
My shit! I'm tired of shitting
my shit and smellin' it.
Who cares about Quebec
and more about Canada?
I'm overtired of bein' a man.
I want to be me.
End of the monologue.
Q-Bec B.B.Q.
$1.84.
Have a beautiful breast,
be well shaped,
desirable, sexy.
Develop an amazing breast size.
You want to be
like Hollywood stars?
Don't be shy.
Lose your inferiority complex
for ever.
Be a woman.
Imagine, in your own home,
few minutes a day will bring you
fabulous results
in no time.
Send only a dollar
and obtain
the most gorgeous bust.
All sizes available.
No doubt,
Quebec's chicken made in Quebec
by Quebecers
and eaten by Quebecers...
It's the best.
Don't worry baby
one of these days
we'll have our own B.B.Q.,
for Christ's sake.
National Union objectives.
Quebec's Liberal Party
political program: Quebec on the go.
Worried about
all the workers troubles.
...spread disorder
and confusion and enable
all Quebecers to earn
an honourable...
...cultural and artistic living.
Problems are multiplying.
They result mainly
from the Liberal regime's
feverish haste to implement plans...
...for culture,
the obligation for theatre
or concert companies,
with the cooperation of the State,
to offer the public
tickets at popular prices.
We can thus present
quality shows...
Of course,
there are a few centres
in Québec
where we find
cultural activities.
Some regions also maintain
at a decent level
the productivity
of their handicraft.
and some traditional arts.
But because of the isolated
character
of such activities...
...facilitate the development
of film creation
and production.
We're intensifying
our policy of purchase
of works of art
and subsidies to artists.
For artists we'll fix up centres
for meetings and symposiums...
...is unfortunately far
from being radiant enough
all over our territory,
and it should be
much more influential
outside our borders.
Like the dairy industry
supplies...
...the majority of the population
to live in French
wherever on
the Québec territory.
Measures will be taken
to give Québec
a French face
and the French language
the priority it should have
in the administration
and public services.
That's enough.
Come to bed.
You don't dream.
I'm sleepy, for Christ's sake.
Come on to bed.
Naturally, I'm no playmate.
Naturally, I don't look like USA.
Come on to bed, Christ.
Go to hell.
IS IT TOO LATE TO DREAM?!
Women, men,
you all,
myself,
you, us,
us all, from here
or elsewhere,
I dream of telling you
a dreamy speech.
I dream of telling you a dream.
I dream to see you dream.
Listen to the silence of the light
that brings me birth.
Listen to the silence
of the galaxies.
Look at me!
Look at you!
Look at us!
You don't understand
what's going on.
We don't
and they don't.
This time,
I won't show you my arse.
I want you to look
inside of me.
I want you to imagine
that I may suffer.
I may have cancer.
I may soon die
before the end of this shot...
before the end of this film,
who knows!
My arse, your arse, his arse,
our arse, your arse, their arse...
And still you make war!
You kill! You're killed!
You're without a job!
You suffer!
And still you're the slaves
of dealers, bankers,
politicians, bishops,
publicity, films...
And still you let it be,
you let yourself buy,
humiliate, exploit.
But you have color TV
and a brand new car.
But still,
you're the only one responsible
for what's happening
or not happening.
A nobody-country has always
the politicians,
priests, pornographers
and terrorists it deserves.
I repeat:
A nobody-country has always
the politicians, priests,
pornographers and terrorists
it deserves.
Women, men,
of yesterday, today, tomorrow,
we have no more time
to split around between
legitimacy illegitimate,
illegitimacy legitimate,
law and fate,
good and bad,
left lung and right lung.
As I told you,
I'm fed up
with the truth and the truths.
The bombs
that fall or will fall
on your head
are the truth.
Useless money
that buys everything
is the truth.
Politicians' and notables' treason
is the truth.
Cancer, heart attacks,
syphilis, abortion,
are the truth.
How can you possibly
make the difference
between decency
and indecency?
Men, women, comrades,
friends, grandfathers,
enemies, white, yellow,
black, greyish,
bitter, sweet,
sad, deceived, proud...
Truth is nothing but
the lie of truth,
life, the illusion of life,
death,
a simple inconsequence.
However
death is the only moral.
You should occupy
your leisure dying,
dying properly,
for somebody,
something to love.
To live.
Because tomorrow,
once you're dead,
it's gonna be too late
to really die.
Only pornography...
Only pornography is not humorous.
What we used to say
when we were kids:
"What...
the Brother...
said."
The other thing
that's not humorous...
The other thing
that's not humorous
is politics.
Is...
Is po...
Is poli...
Is politics.
Where will stop the hypocrisy
of those who think for others
and the weakness
of those who let it be?
Where will stop the hypocrisy
of those who despise man
in allowing him
to be only passive
and where will stop
the weakness of those
who let it be...
this simple, passive spectator
before the world
and before the screens
that cheat the world,
cheat love,
life and death.
Cinema must be vanquished.
Screens must be burnt,
and that fire must be of joy
to break down
the frigidity of mankind.
Air must become music,
and falling snow
must be falling snow.
THE END
This film was digitized
and restored in June 2015
The digitization and restoration of this film remain faithful
to the body and spirit of the original work.
They have been made possible by funding from
to children and those who
want to live for someting
Anybody around?
- Don't know. Where are we?
Don't know. Home,
in our beautiful Quebec,
or in Canada,
or in USA, or in Europe,
or in a Communist country...
- You've got fuckin' ideas!
Hey!
You there in the toilets,
put out your smokes 'n come
'n see the movie!
'N you in the back there
to grope your girlfriends'
asses. Move forward.
You're not on television here.
START
CINAK PRESENTS
A revolution
mustn't start
where others have ended
nor end where others start.
But must a revolution be political?
Or sexual?
Or both at the time?
You understand?!
SO
CINAK PRESENTS
A COMMERCIAL SUCCESS
A NATIONALIST TRAGEDY
AND A UNIVERSAL COMEDY
We wish to thank Suzanne Olivier, Yvon Malette, Pierre Hébert, the
Conseil québécois pour la diffusion du cinéma
and the Galerie Place Royale
Only...
Only humour isn't pornographic.
Only humour isn't...
Only humour isn't pornographic.
Only humour isn't por...
Only... humour...
isn't pornographic.
On November 8th, 1969,
when the following sequence
was shot,
the following people occupied
the following positions:
Pierre Elliott Trudeau,
Prime Minister of Canada,
Liberal Party.
Jean-Jacques Bertrand,
Prime Minister of Québec,
Union Nationale.
Jean Drapeau, Mayor of Montréal.
Richard Nixon,
President of the United States.
There's nothing fictitious
about those persons.
Even though their names
will soon belong
to the small or big fiction
of history.
If I name them,
it's to remind you that
those men speak
and act on your behalf.
It's also to remind you
that you make them live
and let them survive
or you will kill them.
So it is with porn movies.
Let's recall finally the result
of last night's demonstration
on November 7th,
organized to protest against
the growing climate
of political
repression in Québec
and to demand
the liberation
of Pierre Vallières
and Charles Gagnon,
the resignation of Québec's Minister
of Justice, Rémi Paul,
and the withdrawal of Bill 63
Some 2,500 took part
in this demonstration.
The police, numbering more than
1,000,
could watch
the comings and goings
of the demonstrators
through closed circuit television.
Some ten Molotov cocktails
were launched.
Few arrests were made.
PERSONAL FILE
Note...
From yesterday,
today and tomorrow,
every guilty person
will be punished
and the punished ones
will be guilty
till
the end
of their life.
No man, no woman
will escape
from the destiny
of any political movement:
left, right, center,
back or front.
Revolution and anti-revolution,
morality and immorality,
decency and indecency,
photography and pornography,
censor and anticensor,
God and Satan,
living dead and stillborn,
politicians and drunkards,
homosexuals and lesbians,
cats and rats,
clowns and bleeding hearts,
officials and hippies,
nothing nor anyone
will escape from the power
of opposites,
from the politico-erotic split
of cosmic instinct.
That's all.
From yesterday,
today and tomorrow,
every guilty person
will be punished
and the punished ones will be guilty
till the end of their life.
No man, no woman
will escape from the destiny of
any political movement:
left, right, center,
back or front.
Revolution and anti-revolution,
morality and immorality,
decency and indecency,
photography and pornography,
censor and anti-censor,
God and Satan,
living dead and stillborn,
politicians and drunkards,
homosexuals and lesbians,
cats and rats,
clowns and bleeding hearts,
officials and hippies,
nothing nor anyone
will escape from the power
of opposites,
from the politico-erotic split
of cosmic instinct.
Here's Canada.
Canada: second widest country,
with 3.8 millions square miles,
It's the world's
second largest country,
more than half of the
North American continent,
with five important
geographic regions.
Because the French Canadians
have retained
their language and traditions
after the conquest of Quebec
by the English,
French Canada has
a particular cultural life.
Most of the French Canadians
live in Quebec.
The English-speaking population
has grown through immigration
British and American immigration
did that more than 3.5 millions
of Canadians today
are descendants of
Scotch and Irish.
Many are descendants
of the first American settlers
who came to Canada
during the American revolution.
In the beginning, Canada was
inhabited by Asiatic tribes
which could have crossed
the Bering Strait
some few thousand years ago.
The Eskimos and the Indians
are descendants of them.
The name “Canada" probably dates
back to those first inhabitants.
The Hurons-Iroquois used
the word "Kanata"
to signify a colony.
The true founder and colonizer
of French Canada,
Samuel de Champlain,
was impressed by
the quality of the furs
exchanged with kind Indians.
From 1604 to 1634,
he established
small colonies
of French pioneers.
The first attempts by the English to found colonies
date back to 1628.
Canada has
parliamentary government
since British North America Act
in 1867
which declares that Canada
will have one parliament
composed of the Queen,
the Senate,
and the House of Commons.
Prologue #1.
God created woman.
Man invented the key.
From this day
the doors multiplied.
And came cinema,
inventing the key hole.
Prologue #2.
CANADIAN OCEAN
My name is Q-Bec.
I am 434 years old.
I was discovered in 1535.
In 1608,
Samuel de Champlain,
after seeing my Diamond Cape,
lands on me and clears
a part of my virgin forest.
In Indian, my name means
"narrow passage''.
One day, Samuel told me...
One day, Samuel told me...
The conversion of an unbeliever!
- "The conversion of an unbeliever
is by far better than
the conquest of an empire."
That's how he killed
two birds with one stone,
establishing God's empire
through conversion.
However, Champlain enters me
more and more
and sails the Ottawa River
up to Ottawa, the capital of Canada.
Left alone by my lover,
I welcome missionaries,
trappers and Indians.
In 1642,
I move to Ville-Marie
with de Maisonneuve,
who said that now famous word:
"If all the trees of Montreal
should become women,
it is an obligation for me
to fecundate a colony,
and I will."
For a while,
nothing special:
new explorations,
widening of the territory...
I have to wait till 1690,
to feel new sensations
when Admiral Phipps
tries to rape me.
But Frontenac is there
ready to shoot.
However, in 1759,
what was up came down,
while my drill-ground of Abraham
was bleeding.
Then,
after my Lower and Upper Canada,
I underwent a hysterectomy in 1867.
Result: the birth of
the assembly of fools.
Little by little, I spread
from an ocean to the other.
I fool around with anybody,
anytime, always,
as long as it pays,
with the communists, the fascists,
the imperialists,
and the English Canadians.
SEA OF SARCASMS
Only
humour
isn't
pornographic.
Saint Narcissus
pray for us
Saint Nicephore
pray for us
Saint Pacôme
pray for us
Saint Rose
pray for us
Saint Éleuthère
pray for us
Saint-Magloire...
Pray for us.
Sainte-Gertrude...
Pray for us.
Saint-Guy...
Pray for us.
Saint-Éleuthère...
Pray for us.
Sainte-Anne-des-Monts...
Pray for us.
Sainte-Blandine...
Pray for us.
Saint-Lambert...
Pray for us.
Saint-Jude...
Pray for us.
Saint-Fortunat...
Pray for us.
Saint-Éleuthère...
Pray for us.
Saint-Agapit...
Pray for us.
Sainte-Agathe...
Pray for us.
Saint-Nicéphore...
Pray for us.
Saint-Prime...
Pray for us.
Saint-Hilarion...
Pray for us.
Saint-Lin...
Pray for us.
Saint-Liboire...
Pray for us.
Saint-Edwige...
Pray for us.
Saint-Henri...
Pray for us.
Let the holy will of Quebec be...
Amen.
Cut!
Do you want to know
what is nationalism?
I'll tell you.
It's a woman who doesn't want
to change her bra
even though
her breasts increase.
Intermission
in order to portray truth.
The body who would never be used
as an instrument...
Married love
reveals its true nature
and its true...
...of full time job would
resexualize.
Regression...
...nobility considered
in its essence...
...of full time job
implicated in such a development
of libido is evi...
God, who is love,
father and paternity...
...first with the activation
of all zones...
...his name,
in heaven and on earth.
...erotic,
and so the rebirth of sexuality...
...so marriage isn't an accident...
...pre-genital
and by the decline
of supremacy...
...product of the evolution of
unconscious natural strength.
Something to have an orgasm,
an instrument of pleasure.
It's a wise institution
of the Creator
to realize that...
transformation of the value
and the extent of relations...
humanity, his design for love
through the lustful dona...
...would lead to the disintegration
of institutions.
Spouses tend towards
the communion of their beings...
in which private,
interpersonal relations have...
This perspective seems to confirm
the forecast according to which...
With God, the generation
and education of a new life.
Genital to the eroticization
of the whole personality.
This...
the union of Christ
and the Church.
End of the intermission.
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Only humour
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NINE MONTHS LATER
Only humour
isn't pornographic.
You know,
international politics
is no women's business.
Q-BEC HAD TO FADE OUT
AND PLUG A QUEBECER
Me. Quebec to Quebecers.
We're stuck together.
Quebec to Quebecers. Me.
They're all stuck together.
Quebec to Quebecers.
EPISODES OF A NATIONALIST LIFE
My name is
Jean-Baptiste Bilingual.
I have no age.
And you want to know
what I'm fed up.
Here or elsewhere, who cares,
it's the same fuckin' thing.
Everything's the same.
Some fuck, others watch them.
Some make laws, and others suffer.
I'll tell you all about it
and smack it
right into your face.
And don't you try to tell me
how to speak.
or that I won't be understood
in gay Paree
Don't you fuckin' try, you bugger,
to tell me I swear,
that it's ugly and
that I will be censured
for Christ's sake.
I'm not drunk and we're just alike.
My shit! I'm tired of shitting
my shit and smellin' it.
Who cares about Quebec
and more about Canada?
I'm overtired of bein' a man.
I want to be me.
End of the monologue.
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No doubt,
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and eaten by Quebecers...
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Don't worry baby
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we'll have our own B.B.Q.,
for Christ's sake.
National Union objectives.
Quebec's Liberal Party
political program: Quebec on the go.
Worried about
all the workers troubles.
...spread disorder
and confusion and enable
all Quebecers to earn
an honourable...
...cultural and artistic living.
Problems are multiplying.
They result mainly
from the Liberal regime's
feverish haste to implement plans...
...for culture,
the obligation for theatre
or concert companies,
with the cooperation of the State,
to offer the public
tickets at popular prices.
We can thus present
quality shows...
Of course,
there are a few centres
in Québec
where we find
cultural activities.
Some regions also maintain
at a decent level
the productivity
of their handicraft.
and some traditional arts.
But because of the isolated
character
of such activities...
...facilitate the development
of film creation
and production.
We're intensifying
our policy of purchase
of works of art
and subsidies to artists.
For artists we'll fix up centres
for meetings and symposiums...
...is unfortunately far
from being radiant enough
all over our territory,
and it should be
much more influential
outside our borders.
Like the dairy industry
supplies...
...the majority of the population
to live in French
wherever on
the Québec territory.
Measures will be taken
to give Québec
a French face
and the French language
the priority it should have
in the administration
and public services.
That's enough.
Come to bed.
You don't dream.
I'm sleepy, for Christ's sake.
Come on to bed.
Naturally, I'm no playmate.
Naturally, I don't look like USA.
Come on to bed, Christ.
Go to hell.
IS IT TOO LATE TO DREAM?!
Women, men,
you all,
myself,
you, us,
us all, from here
or elsewhere,
I dream of telling you
a dreamy speech.
I dream of telling you a dream.
I dream to see you dream.
Listen to the silence of the light
that brings me birth.
Listen to the silence
of the galaxies.
Look at me!
Look at you!
Look at us!
You don't understand
what's going on.
We don't
and they don't.
This time,
I won't show you my arse.
I want you to look
inside of me.
I want you to imagine
that I may suffer.
I may have cancer.
I may soon die
before the end of this shot...
before the end of this film,
who knows!
My arse, your arse, his arse,
our arse, your arse, their arse...
And still you make war!
You kill! You're killed!
You're without a job!
You suffer!
And still you're the slaves
of dealers, bankers,
politicians, bishops,
publicity, films...
And still you let it be,
you let yourself buy,
humiliate, exploit.
But you have color TV
and a brand new car.
But still,
you're the only one responsible
for what's happening
or not happening.
A nobody-country has always
the politicians,
priests, pornographers
and terrorists it deserves.
I repeat:
A nobody-country has always
the politicians, priests,
pornographers and terrorists
it deserves.
Women, men,
of yesterday, today, tomorrow,
we have no more time
to split around between
legitimacy illegitimate,
illegitimacy legitimate,
law and fate,
good and bad,
left lung and right lung.
As I told you,
I'm fed up
with the truth and the truths.
The bombs
that fall or will fall
on your head
are the truth.
Useless money
that buys everything
is the truth.
Politicians' and notables' treason
is the truth.
Cancer, heart attacks,
syphilis, abortion,
are the truth.
How can you possibly
make the difference
between decency
and indecency?
Men, women, comrades,
friends, grandfathers,
enemies, white, yellow,
black, greyish,
bitter, sweet,
sad, deceived, proud...
Truth is nothing but
the lie of truth,
life, the illusion of life,
death,
a simple inconsequence.
However
death is the only moral.
You should occupy
your leisure dying,
dying properly,
for somebody,
something to love.
To live.
Because tomorrow,
once you're dead,
it's gonna be too late
to really die.
Only pornography...
Only pornography is not humorous.
What we used to say
when we were kids:
"What...
the Brother...
said."
The other thing
that's not humorous...
The other thing
that's not humorous
is politics.
Is...
Is po...
Is poli...
Is politics.
Where will stop the hypocrisy
of those who think for others
and the weakness
of those who let it be?
Where will stop the hypocrisy
of those who despise man
in allowing him
to be only passive
and where will stop
the weakness of those
who let it be...
this simple, passive spectator
before the world
and before the screens
that cheat the world,
cheat love,
life and death.
Cinema must be vanquished.
Screens must be burnt,
and that fire must be of joy
to break down
the frigidity of mankind.
Air must become music,
and falling snow
must be falling snow.
THE END
This film was digitized
and restored in June 2015