- Traître ou Patriote
"Traître ou Patriote" (in English: "Traitor or Patriot") is a
Quebec documentary produced by theNational Film Board of Canada (NFB) in2000 . It is directed by and starringJacques Godbout . Its style belongs to the Quebec cinéma direct school offilm making.ynopsis
It analyzes the place of Quebec Premier
Adélard Godbout in history. Godbout is not well-considered by Quebec historians and citizens. Adérald Godbout was theSecond World War –era Quebechead of government , and the great-uncle of the director. Godbout advances some theories to explain why his great-uncle was forgotten in the collective memory of theQuebecer s. One theory is that Adélard Godbout was more favourable than other political leaders to conscription. Quebec nationalists, at the time, opposed conscription, which they saw as a British imperialist manoeuvre ofEnglish Canada to defend theEmpire .Production
Like other documentaries of his ("
Le Mouton noir ", for example), "Traître ou Patriote" showcases Jacques Godbout's own style of putting himself into the narrative thread: he sets up scenes where he researches his subject and interacts with others, to help push the documentary forward. One example of this is when he is filmed asking historians at a reception if they can recognize the picture of Godbout, the politician, which they cannot. Jacques Godbout provides his own voice for the voice-overs of the English version.ee also
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List of Quebec movies
*List of Quebec film directors
*Cinema of Quebec
*Culture of Quebec
*History of Quebec
*Politics of Quebec External links
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* [http://cmm.onf.ca/E/titleinfo/index.epl?id=50187&sid=108683e996f28b52f568b870dfd31a79&coll= Traitor or Patriot at NFB]
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