Poverty and Other Delights

Poverty and Other Delights
Joyeux Calvaire
Directed by	Denys Arcand
Produced by	Denise Robert
Written by	Claire Richard
Starring	Benoît Brière Gaston Lepage
Music by	Yves Laferrière
Cinematography	Guy Dufaux
Edited by	André Daignault
Release dates	November 29, 1996 (1996-11-29)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

Poverty and Other Delights (French: Joyeux Calvaire) is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, directed by Denys Arcand and released in 1996.^[1] The film stars Benoît Brière and Gaston Lepage as Joseph and Marcel, two homeless men living on the streets of Montreal.^[2]

The film was written by Claire Richard, a volunteer with a housing assistance program in Montreal.^[1] It was originally intended as a television film for Télévision de Radio-Canada.^[2]

References

1 2 "Joyeux Calvaire takes Arcand back to French roots". Montreal Gazette, October 24, 1996.
1 2 "Arcand stumbles in film about homeless". Montreal Gazette, November 29, 1996.

External links

Poverty and Other Delights at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Denys Arcand

A l'est d'Eaton (short, co-directed with Stéphane Venne, 1959)
Seul ou avec d'autres (co-directed with Denis Héroux and Stéphane Venne, 1962)
Cotton Mill, Treadmill (1970)
Dirty Money (1972)
Réjeanne Padovani (1973)
Gina (1975)
Comfort and Indifference (1982)
Empire, Inc. (TV mini-series episodes 2,5,6, 1983)
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (1984)
The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
Jesus of Montreal (1989)
Les lettres de la religieuse portugaise (TV, 1991)
Vue d'ailleurs (1992)
Love and Human Remains (1993)
Poverty and Other Delights (1996)
Stardom (2000)
The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
Days of Darkness (2007)
An Eye for Beauty (2014)

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