Wow (film)

Wow is a 1969 Québécois film directed by Claude Jutra, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

Wow
Directed byClaude Jutra
Produced byRobert Forget
Written byDanielle Bail
Pierre Charpentier
StarringDanielle Bail
Pierre Charpentier
Philippe Dubé
Dave Gold
Marc Harvey
François Jasmin
Michèle Mercure
Philippe Raoul
Monique Simard
Music byPierre F. Brault
Jim Solkin
CinematographyGilles Gascon
André-Luc Dupont
Edited byClaire Boyer
Yves Dion
Claude Jutra
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • 1969 (1969)
Running time
94 min.
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Synopsis

Claude Jutra's first feature-length film is an improvised docudrama about the lives and dreams of nine Montreal young people. The film is made up of nine separate episodes, each one expressing a particular fantasy of one member of the group. This exuberant, low-budget effort, shot in the style of the French New Wave films, provides hints of Jutra's immense talents as a director.[1]

Production

Subjects in the film included some participants Jutra had worked with in his 1966 mockumentary film The Devil's Toy (Rouli-roulant), a faux-anti-skateboarding propaganda film.[2]

Sequel

Thirty years after the production of Wow, the NFB co-produced a sequel Wow 2, using the same concept of adolescents acting out their dreams. This film was directed by Jean-Philippe Duval and co-produced by Monique Simard, who was a participant in the original film.

References
  1. Clandfield, David (1987). Canadian Film. Toronto: Oxford University Press. p. 64. ISBN 0-19-540581-1.
  2. Leach, Jim (1 September 1999). Claude Jutra: Filmmaker. McGill-Queen's Press. pp. 99–100. ISBN 978-0773518599.
  • Wow at IMDb
  • Watch Wow at the National Film Board of Canada (in French)


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