C.R.A.Z.Y.

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C.R.A.Z.Y.
Directed by	Jean-Marc Vallée
Produced by	Pierre Even Jean-Marc Vallée
Written by	François Boulay Jean-Marc Vallée
Starring	Michel Côté Marc-André Grondin Danielle Proulx
Music by	David Bowie, Patsy Cline, Pink Floyd and others.
Cinematography	Pierre Mignot
Editing by	Paul Jutras
Distributed by	TVA Films
Release date(s)	May 27, 2005 (Quebec) April 21, 2006 (UK) August 31, 2006 (Australia)
Running time	127 min.
Language	French
Budget	CAD 6,500,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile

C.R.A.Z.Y. is an award-winning and popular 2005 French-language Canadian film from Quebec. It tells the story of Zac, a young man dealing with his emerging homosexual feelings while growing up with four brothers and a conservative father in 1960s and 1970s Quebec. The film was directed and co-written (with François Boulay) by Jean-Marc Vallée. The title derives from the first letter in the names of the five brothers: Christian, Raymond, Antoine, Zachary and Yvan, and also refers to their father's abiding love of Patsy Cline's classic song "Crazy".

Since its release, it has often been called one of the greatest Quebec films of all time - and, by extension, one of the greatest films to ever come out of Canada.^[who?]

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Production 3 Exhibition 4 Box office and awards 4.1 List of awards 5 Cast 6 See also 7 External links 8 References

[edit] Synopsis

Zachary Beaulieu (Marc-André Grondin) grows up in the turbulent Québec of the 1960s and 1970s. The second-youngest son of a father with "more than normal-level male hormones" and raised among four other brothers, Zac struggles to define his own identity, and deal with the conflict between his emerging sexuality and his intense desire to please his strict, temperamental and conservative father, who would be regarded as homophobic today. One of the film's themes is the waning influence of the Catholic Church in Québec society during the Quiet Revolution.

[edit] Production

Period music is an important element of the movie, and a considerable portion of the film's budget was spent acquiring rights for songs by Patsy Cline, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones as well as David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and many others.^[1]

There is one song by Charles Aznavour that is repeated over and over in the movie, that is sung by the father.

[edit] Exhibition

The movie opened in Quebec on May 27, 2005. Its length is 127 minutes and the rating (under Québec's movie rating system) was 13+.

[edit] Box office and awards

C.R.A.Z.Y. was a strong box office hit by the standards of the relatively small Quebec market, grossing CAD$ 6.2 million. It was well-received by critics.

At the 26th Genie Awards for Canadian film it won 11 of the 13 awards, and won several awards at the Prix Jutra for Quebec films. It won awards at several film festivals internationally. It was also selected as Canada's submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards, but was not one of the films nominated.

[edit] List of awards

• Maine International Film Festival, 2007: Winner, Audience Favorite Award.
• Prix Jutra, 2006: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Makeup, Best Hairstyle, Biggest Box Office Success, Most Illustrious Film outside of Quebec
• Genie Awards, 2006: Best Motion Picture, Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design, Achievement in Costume Design, Achievement in Direction, Achievement in Editing, Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Achievement in Sound Editing, Original Screenplay,
• Toronto International Film Festival, 2005: Toronto – City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film
• Gijon international film festival (Spain), 2005: Young jury's award (best film), best director (Jean-Marc Vallée), best script (François Boulay), best artistic direction (Patrice Bricault-Vermette)
• Atlantic Film Festival, 2005: Best Canadian Feature
• AFI Fest (Los Angeles), 2005: Audience Award for Best Film
• Marrakech film festival (Morocco), 2005: Jury's prize
• Venice Film Festival (Italy), 2005: accepted

[edit] Cast

• Michel Côté : Gervais Beaulieu, the father
• Marc-André Grondin : Zachary Beaulieu
• Danielle Proulx : Laurianne Beaulieu, the mother
• Pierre-Luc Brillant : Raymond Beaulieu
• Alex Gravel : Antoine Beaulieu
• Maxime Tremblay : Christian Beaulieu
• Mariloup Wolfe : Brigitte
• Francis Ducharme : Paul

[edit] See also

• Cinema of Quebec
• List of Quebec films

[edit] External links

• Canadian Film Encyclopedia [A publication of The Film Reference Library/a division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group]
• Going C.R.A.Z.Y.: The story behind Quebec’s current box-office triumph
• C.R.A.Z.Y. at the Internet Movie Database
• Movie trailer (in French; 512K)
• C.R.A.Z.Y. soundtrack list on IMDB

[edit] References

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