Seeing Miami...

Seeing Miami...

| 30 min

Seeing Miami... is a cinematic allegory of the modern U.S. at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Gilles Groulx’s masterfully poetic montage aesthetic evokes Quebecers’ simultaneous aversion and attraction to the El Dorado that is Florida—both a giant nursing home and an ideal of progress, American style.

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Seeing Miami..., Gilles Groulx, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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  • director
    Gilles Groulx
  • producer
    Fernand Dansereau

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