''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, offering an analysis of the

1980 Quebec referendum The 1980 Quebec independence referendum was the first referendum in Quebec on the place of Quebec within Canada and whether Quebec should pursue a path toward sovereignty. The referendum was called by Quebec's Parti Québécois (PQ) government, whi ...

, 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

External links

NFB Web pageWatch ''Le confort et l'indifférence'' online
(in French) * 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 {{poli-documentary-film-stub