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The Toxic Cinema of Alain Marchant (Part II)

April 1, 2016April 1, 2016FilmmakersAlain Marchant, canada film industry news today

(The conclusion of a feature-length essay on Quebecois wunderkind, Alain Marchant, and his controversial body of work. In this segment, I examine his recent films, including a highly anticipated adaptation of Robert Francis Lafferty’s Canadian

The Toxic Cinema of Alain Marchant

April 1, 2016April 1, 2016FilmmakersAlain Marchant

At one point during his infamous 2014 appearance on the CBC arts program Q, director and enfant terrible Alain Marchant set his sights squarely on English Canadian films, asserting: “You see our (Quebecois) cinema and

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