Nô (other)
Nô may refer to: * Noh, a form of Japanese musical drama * ''Nô'' (film), a 1998 film which uses Noh theatre as a dramatic device See also * No (other) No or NO may refer to: Linguistics and symbols * ''Yes'' and ''no'', responses * No, an English determiner in noun phrases * No (kana) (, ), a letter/syllable in Japanese script * No symbol (🚫), the general prohibition sign * Numero sign ( o ...

Nô (film)
''Nô'' is a 1998 Canadian film by director Robert Lepage. It was based on one segment in Lepage's play ''Seven Streams of the River Ota''.Monk, Katherine (2001). ''Weird sex & snowshoes and other Canadian film phenomena'' (Vancouver: Rainforest Books), p. 322. The title is a pun which reflects the film's dramatic structure, linking the 1980 Quebec referendum (in which the "no" won) to Japanese Nō theatre. Plot The film is set in 1970 at the height of the FLQ bombings in Montreal, known as the October Crisis. During the Crisis, Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau instituted the War Measures Act, which resulted in martial law on the streets of Montreal. The central character, Sophie ( Anne-Marie Cadieux), is an actress working in Osaka (Japan) at Expo '70, while her boyfriend, Michel ( Alexis Martin), is an FLQ sympathizer. Sophie discovers that she is pregnant and phones Michel, but before she can tell him, two FLQ friends suddenly turn up at his apartment looking for a place ...
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