Manette ou les dieux de carton
Fantasia is once again offering films that reflect the vitality of genre cinema throughout the history of Quebec cinema. An homage to filmmaker Jean-Claude Lord will also be held on this occasion.
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This character of a neurotic young girl at her parents' home, fantasizing about birds, living a new sexual freedom, developing her creative talents at the Beaux-Arts, participating in independence demonstrations, living with a man without being married, undergoing a clandestine abortion, meeting masochism and lesbianism, admiring the poet Claude Gauvreau delivering his poems in small boxes where artists gather, passing for a time through prostitution to finally end up in yoga and oriental mysticism corresponds quite closely to many of the master ideas fashionable in the 60s. His final observation of the inanity of Asian spiritualities is even ahead of its time.
Camil Adam
Camil Adam, director, editor, screenwriter (1927 - 2007). After a short career as a musician, he began working in the film industry as an editor, notably working with Claude Jutra and Roger Blais. He directed his first film, Silence, on tourne (1958), followed by a second, Au plus petit d'entre nous (1962), an objective study of the life of a Montreal tramp, which won an award at the Montreal International Film Festival. He then undertook the direction of a feature film, Manette (la folle et les dieux de carton) (1965), shot independently, which awaited a long release (early 1967). In this film, Adam describes, in an ambitious but rough style, the case of a prostitute who believes that Hindu mysticism is the solution to her existential problems. Following this project, Adam left the film industry to become a music editor. However, he participates in the screenplay of L'apparition (R. Cardinal, 1972), of which he directs a few scenes without however being recognized for his contribution to the credits, and signs the editing of Ribo ou "le soleil sauvage " (R. Racine and J.-H. Nama, 1977).
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