''Far from You Sweetheart'' (french: Je suis loin de toi mignonne) is a 1976 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Claude Fournier.

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, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 75. The film stars

Dominique Michel Dominique Michel, OC, CQ (born ''Aimée Sylvestre''; September 24, 1932 in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec) is a Quebec comedian, actress, singer and artist. Biography She began her career in cabarets performing songs written by Raymond Lévesque and sub ...

and Denise Filiatrault as Rita and Florence, two sisters who are working in a

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factory during

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, while still dreaming of finding husbands and getting married.Vanessa Guimond
"Cinq films de Dodo à revoir"
'' Le Journal de Montréal'', October 26, 2017. The cast also includes René Caron, Carole Dagenais, Denis Drouin, Bernard Gosselin, Juliette Huot, Marc Legault, Marcel Pothier, Gilles Renaud,

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. Maurice Élia of the film magazine ''

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'' compared the film negatively to the 1975 wartime drama '' Bound for Glory (Partis pour la gloire)'', calling it a vulgar farce that wasn't actually funny enough to call it a comedy. Writing for ''

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'', André Leroux opined that Fournier had no idea how to construct a screenplay, a compelling plot or believable characters.Charles-Henri Ramond
"Je suis loin de toi Mignonne – Film de Claude Fournier"
''Films du Québec'', February 8, 2009. Despite its negative critical reception, however, the film was moderately successful at the Quebec box office, and Michel later named it as one of the films she was most proud of in her career, in part because she had been directly involved in writing it."Dominique Michel célébrée par Éléphant". ''7 Jours'', November 9, 2017. It was included in a retrospective of Michel's career at the

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in 2017.

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* 1976 films 1976 comedy-drama films Canadian comedy-drama films Films shot in Quebec Films set in Quebec Films directed by Claude Fournier French-language Canadian films 1970s Canadian films {{1970s-Canada-film-stub