''Comfort and Indifference'' (french: Le confort et l'indifférence) is a 1982
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...
by
Denys Arcand
Georges-Henri Denys Arcand (; born June 25, 1941) is a French Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. His film ''The Barbarian Invasions'' won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004. His films have also been nominated three f ...
, offering an analysis of the
1980 Quebec referendum, in which "
sovereignty-association
The Quebec sovereignty movement (french: Mouvement souverainiste du Québec) is a political movement whose objective is to achieve the sovereignty of Quebec, a province of Canada since 1867, including in all matters related to any provision of ...
" was defeated as a first step to eventual secession from Canada. The film takes the position that the referendum result was a failure of courage and that the Québécois were numbed by prosperity and the explicitly Machiavellian manipulations of federalist leaders.
Production
The film had a budget of $483,675 (.
Works cited
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External links
NFB Web pageWatch ''Le confort et l'indifférence'' online
(in French)
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1982 films
Canadian documentary films
National Film Board of Canada documentaries
Films directed by Denys Arcand
Documentary films about Quebec politics
1982 documentary films
French-language Canadian films
1980s Canadian films
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