Yes Sir! Madame...
| Yes Sir! Madame... | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Robert Morin |
| Written by | Robert Morin |
| Produced by | Lorraine Dufour Robert Morin |
| Starring | Robert Morin |
| Cinematography | Robert Morin |
| Edited by | Robert Morin |
Production companies | Coop Vidéo de Montréal Morin Dufour Production |
| Distributed by | Vidéographe |
Release date |
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Running time | 73 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Languages | English French |
Yes Sir! Madame... is a Canadian satirical film, directed by Robert Morin and released in 1994.[1] The film is essentially a philosophical monologue on identity performed entirely by Morin in the character of Earl Tremblay, a former politician who is filming his own testimony about the duality of being the son of a French Canadian father and an English Canadian mother, thus both belonging and feeling like an outsider to both of Canada's primary language communities.[2]
The film essentially blended Morin's early work as a video artist with his more recent forays into full-length narrative filmmaking in the early 1990s.[3]
The film premiered on November 18, 1994, at Troisième fenêtre, a video art exhibition in Montreal,[4] before going into wider release in 1995.[1]
A digitally restored version of the film was screened at the Fantasia Film Festival in 2021.[5]
References
- ^ a b Charles-Henri Ramond, "Yes Sir! Madame… – Film de Robert Morin". Films du Québec, March 16, 2009.
- ^ Jean-François Vandeuren, "YES SIR! MADAME... (1994)". Panorama-Cinéma, March 10, 2006.
- ^ Pierre Véronneau, "Robert Morin". The Canadian Encyclopedia, September 11, 2006.
- ^ Mario Cloutier, "La troisième fenêtre". Séquences, No, 175 (Nov-Dec 1994). p. 53.
- ^ "Deux films québécois restaurés par Éléphant au Festival Fantasia". Le Journal de Montréal, August 10, 2021.
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