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Révérence

Patrick Bouchard

2007 8 min

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Entre l'égoïsme des bourgeois et la bête passivité de leurs serviteurs, ce court métrage de marionnettes présente la tragi-comédie d'une société agonisante, dont les membres aveuglés se réfugient dans des comportements absurdes. Film sans paroles.

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Entre l'égoïsme des bourgeois et la bête passivité de leurs serviteurs, ce court métrage de marionnettes présente la tragi-comédie d'une société agonisante, dont les membres aveuglés se réfugient dans des comportements absurdes. Film sans paroles.

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Psychology and Psychiatry

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Les inclassables

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Credits

• animation
  Patrick Bouchard
  
• direction
  Patrick Bouchard
  
• script
  Martin Rodolphe Villeneuve
  
• art direction
  Martin Rodolphe Villeneuve
  
• editing
  Natacha Dufaux
  
• puppets
  Dominick Bédard
  
  Jacynthe Dallaire
  
• sets
  Kristine Girard
  
  Marcel Mercier
  
  Dany Boivin
  
• sound design
  Olivier Calvert
  
• sound effects creation
  Lise Wedlock
  
• None
  François Bélanger
  
• voice
  Diane Lefrançois
  
  Daniel Malenfant
  
• recording
  Geoffrey Mitchell
  
• music
  Charles Cotvin
  
• musician
  David Bordeleau
  
  Marc-Antoine Corbeil
  
  Jason de Carufel
  
  Uliana Drugova
  
  Sylvain Lapointe
  
• recording on film
  Pierre Landry
  
• sound mixer
  Serge Boivin
  
  Jean Paul Vialard
  
• digital imaging specialist
  Pierre Plouffe
  
• titles
  Gaspard Gaudreau
  
• online editing
  Denis Gathelier
  
• editing technician
  Ochelle Greenidge
  
  Ariel Santana
  
• marketing officer
  Julie Arseneault
  
• administrator
  Diane Régimbald
  
• administrative team
  Diane Ayotte
  
  Michèle Labelle
  
• technical coordinator
  Julie Laperrière
  
• delegate producer
  Francine Langdeau
  
• executive producer
  Michèle Bélanger
  
  René Chénier
  
• producer
  Marc Bertrand
  

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Education

Ages 14 to 17

Civics/Citizenship - Human Rights
Ethics and Religious Culture - Ethical Values

Discuss the director's intended message by ending the film with the two figures on red carpets. Discuss the importance of working together to sustain a community. What are the disadvantages of inequalities?

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