Réjeanne Padovani

Réjeanne Padovani
Directed by Denys Arcand
Produced by Marguerite Duparc
Written by Denys Arcand
Starring
  • Jean Lajeunesse
  • Luce Guilbeault
  • Léo Gagnon
  • Thérèse Cadorette
Music by Walter Boudreau
Cinematography Alain Dostie
Edited by Denys Arcand
Marguerite Duparc
Production
company
Cinak
Distributed by Cinepix Film Properties
Release date
  • October 3, 1973 (1973-10-03)
Running time
 96 minutes
Country Canada
Language French

Réjeanne Padovani is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, written and directed by Denys Arcand and released in 1973.[1] It was his second narrative feature film as a director, but the first for which he was also the screenwriter.

An examination of political corruption,[2] the film stars Jean Lajeunesse as Vincent Padovani, a construction contractor with mafia ties who has just completed work on a major autoroute project, and is planning a major dinner party to thank the politicians who awarded him the contract. However, as the dinner approaches his plans are disrupted, both professionally by the launch of a public protest by several families whose homes were expropriated for the highway construction and personally by the return of Réjeanne (Luce Guilbeault), his ex-wife who is now married into the family of rival contractor Sam Tannenbaum (Henry Gamer).[3]

Réjeanne Padovani and Wedding in White were the only two Canadian films screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.[4] The French newspaper Le Monde called Réjeanne Padovani one of the best films screened at the festival.[4]

During Quebec's Charbonneau Commission inquiry into corruption in the awarding of construction contracts in the early 2010s, the film received renewed attention with some media outlets calling it "prophetic".[5]

References

  1. ↑ "The rise of Denys Arcand". Montreal Gazette, March 21, 1987.
  2. ↑ "Referendum led Quebec director to film about sex". Ottawa Citizen, February 16, 1987.
  3. ↑ "Reflecting Quebec events through Padovani". The Globe and Mail, February 2, 1974.
  4. 1 2 "Le Monde calls Quebec film finest at Cannes". The Globe and Mail, May 17, 1973.
  5. ↑ "Le cas Réjeanne Padovani". Le Devoir, January 19, 2013.
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