Gina (film)

Gina
Directed by Denys Arcand
Produced by Luc Lamy
Pierre Lamy
Written by Jacques Poulin
Alain Dostie
Starring
Music by Benny Barbara
Michel Pagliaro
Cinematography Alain Dostie
Edited by Denys Arcand
Release date
  • January 23, 1975 (1975-01-23)
Running time
 95 minutes
Country Canada
Language French

Gina is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, directed by Denys Arcand and released in 1975.[1] The film stars Celine Lomez as Gina, a stripper who, after being raped in a motel room, hires two criminal thugs to exact her revenge on the rapists.[2]

Synopsis

Three parallel story lines draw an exploited hotel stripper (Lomez, who is sent to work a small Quebec town), a drunken gang of hell-raising snowmobilers, and a film crew attempting to shoot a political documentary about exploited textile workers (echoing Denys Arcand’s own NFB-banned documentary On est au coton), together into a potent mixture of action, violence against women, and film as a political tool.

References

  1. ↑ Wyndham Wise, Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. University of Toronto Press, 2015. ISBN 9781442656208. Entry "Arcand, Denys".
  2. ↑ Gilles Marsolais, "Un cinéma au temps présent". 24 images, No. 91 (1998), p. 6-7.
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