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The Red Kitchen (1980)
Directed by Frédérique Collin, Paule Baillargeon
Drama · 1h 22m
On a wedding day, women are confined to the kitchen to prepare the meal while the men wait to be served. While men talk politics and sports, women talk about their condition. A teenager observes the gap between the sexes. Co-directed by two actresses, Paule Baillargeon and Frederique Collin, The Red Kitchen is the birth of the Quebec women's cinema. The birth of the film was difficult, and funding has been largely achieved through donations from friends and a benefit concert. This war of the sexes takes place in a demanding formal research, based on the improvisation of the actors, whose preparation took place over long sessions in the workshop. The end result mixes black humour, horror and a very expressive fantasy that gave rise to heated debates.
Cast
Michèle Mercure
The bride
Han Masson
Daybe
Monique Mercure
The mother
Claude Maher
The groom
Gilles Renaud
The father
Guy Thauvette
Thibault Frenette
Raymond Cloutier
Patrice Quenneville
Jean-Pierre Saulnier
Armel
Pierre Curzi
Val Aimé
Crew
- Director
- Frédérique Collin, Paule Baillargeon
- Writer
- Paule Baillargeon, Marie La Haye, Frédérique Collin
- Director of Photography
- Jean-Charles Tremblay
- Original Music Composer
- Yves Laferrière
- Editor
- Babalou Hamelin
- Producer
- Paule Baillargeon
Details
- Original title
- La cuisine rouge
- Release date
- 1980-05-29
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- Institut québécois du cinéma, Ballon Blanc, Productions Anastasie Inc., Les Films du Crépuscule, Canada Council for the Arts
- Budget
- $247,946