''Gina'' is a Canadian drama film from

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, directed 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 ...

and released in 1975. The film stars

Celine Lomez Céline Lomez (born 11 May 1953) is a Canadian actress and singer. Lomez started her show business career singing French-Canadian pop songs with her sister Liette, and the two gained popularity after their performance at the ''Festival du D ...

as Gina, a stripper who, after being

rape Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or ag ...

d in a motel room, hires two criminal thugs to exact her revenge on the rapists.Gilles Marsolais, "Un cinéma au temps présent". ''24 images'', No. 91 (1998), p. 6-7.

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.

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* 1975 films 1975 crime drama films Canadian crime drama films 1970s French-language films Films directed by Denys Arcand Gang rape in fiction French-language Canadian films 1970s Canadian films {{1970s-Canada-film-stub