La gammick
The Cinémathèque québécoise is pleased to partner with Éléphant : mémoire du cinéma québécois to show each month, on the big screen, a restored work from its film repertoire.
Inspired by a true story from the 1950s, the film tells the story of François “Chico” Tremblay, an average Quebecer who once belonged to the local underworld and finds himself confronted by the almighty American mafia. More than a thriller, the film has a social and ideological significance that enables a multi-layered reading and a socio-political analysis of an urban phenomenon: Quebec gangsterism.
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout is a Québécois novelist, poet, essayist, children's writer, and filmmaker born in Montreal in 1933. By his own admission a bit of a dabbler, Godbout has become one of the most important writers of his generation, with a major influence on post-1960 Quebec intellectual life. After completing his classical studies at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, he obtained a master's degree in literature from the Université de Montréal in 1954 before teaching philosophy and French at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia until 1957. Returning to Canada in 1958, he became an advertising executive before joining the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as a filmmaker and scriptwriter. He directed several films during his career, including four feature films and several documentaries. He was one of the founders of the literary magazine Liberté and the Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois (UNEQ), in addition to working on the founding of the Mouvement Souveraineté-Association, which would give rise to the Parti Québécois. He published several essays during Quebec's Quiet Revolution, then wrote novels that explored the possibilities of Quebec identity.
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