''Two Women in Gold'' (french: Deux femmes en or) is a Canadian sex comedy film, directed by
Claude Fournier and released in 1970.
Gerald Pratley
Gerald Arthur Pratley (September 3, 1923 – March 14, 2011) was a Canadian film critic and historian.Piers Handling"Gerald Arthur Pratley" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', September 18, 2011. A longtime film critic for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp ...
, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 227.
Plot
Fernande Turcot and Violette Lamoureux, two housewives in suburban
Brossard
Brossard (, , ) is a municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada and is part of the Greater Montreal area. According to the 2021 census, Brossard's population was 91,525. It shares powers with the urban agglomeration of Longueuil ...
,
Quebec
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, who are trapped in unfulfilling marriages to husbands Yvon and Bob, and deal with their frustrations by beginning to have casual sex with the delivery or repair men who come to their houses.
Cast
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Monique Mercure
Marie Lise Monique Émond (14 November 193016 May 2020), better known as Monique Mercure (), was a Canadian stage and screen actress. She was one of the country's great actors of the classical and modern repertory. In 1977, Mercure won a Cann ...
- Fernande Turcot
*Louise Turcot - Violette Lamoureux
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Marcel Sabourin
Marcel Sabourin, OC (born March 25, 1935) is a Canadian actor and writer from Quebec.Gaetan Charlebois and Anne Nothof"Sabourin, Marcel" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', October 20, 2015. He is most noted for his role as Abel Gagné, the centra ...
- Yvon-T. Turcot
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Donald Pilon - Bob Lamoureux
*Vincent Fournier - Vincent Turcot
*Francine Morand - Miss Cinéma
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Yvon Deschamps
Yvon Deschamps (born July 31, 1935, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Quebec author, actor, comedian and producer best known for his monologues. His social-commentary-tinged humour propelled him to prominence in Quebec popular culture in the 1970s and 1 ...
- M. Téléphone
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Donald Lautrec
Donald Lautrec (born Donald Bourgeois, July 13, 1940 in Jonquière, Quebec) is a Canadian (Quebec) singer and actor.
Career
With a friend in 1957, Lautrec created the acrobatic duo, ''Don and Lee'', which performed on trampolines throughout Cana ...
- M. Lait
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Gilles Latulippe
Gilles Latulippe CM CQ (31 August 1937 – 23 September 2014) was a Québécois actor, comedian and theatre director and manager. Latulippe was a central figure in the history of comic theatre in Quebec. In 1998, he was named Quebec's favourit ...
- M. Jolicoeur
*Réal Béland - le reaconteur de blagues
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Janine Sutto
Janine Sutto, (20 April 1921 – 28 March 2017) was a French-born Canadian actress and comedian.
Career
Born in Paris to Léopold Sutto and Renée Mamert, she emigrated to Canada in 1930, with her family settling in Montreal.
At age 14, Sutt ...
- Mme Lalonde
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Paul Buissonneau
Paul Georges Buissonneau, (born 24 December 1926 – 30 November 2014) was a leading francophone theatre director in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Born in Paris, France, Buissonneau started his career as a singer with the French chorus Les Compagnon ...
- M. Plátre
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Jean Lapointe
Jean Lapointe, (December 6, 1935 – November 18, 2022) was a Canadian actor, comedian and singer as well as a Canadian Senator.
Lapointe began his stage career as part of the duo '' Les Jérolas'' with Jérôme Lemay, performing in such ve ...
- le sergent détective Poivrot
*Paul Berval - M. Tapis
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Georges Groulx
Georges Groulx (June 26, 1922 – February 9, 1997) was a Canadian actor.
Biography
Groulx was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. - François-Xavier Lalonde
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Raymond Lévesque
Raymond Lévesque (October 7, 1928 – February 15, 2021) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet from Quebec. One of the pioneers of the ''chansonnier'' tradition in Quebec, he was best known for writing " Quand les hommes vivront d'amour", on ...
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Michel Chartrand
Michel Chartrand (20 December 1916 – 12 April 2010) was a Canadian trade union leader from Quebec.
Born in Outremont and trained as a typography and print worker, Chartrand became involved in union activism in the 1940s. During the '' Grande ...
- judge
Production
''Two Women in Gold'' was filmed from 24 November 1969, to 9 January 1970, on a budget of $225,000 (). The French version was 107 minutes and 20 seconds long while the English dub was reduced to 90 minutes and 30 seconds.
Release
The film was released in Montreal on 21 May 1970, by France Film and grossed $4 million ().
Reception
Although not immediately popular with critics, the film was a significant commercial success, making at least $2 million at the box office in its initial run. Its success was part of a wave of films that reignited the commercial viability of the
Cinema of Quebec, following a number of fallow years in the late 1960s. As of 2020, it was still recognized as one of the most commercially successful films in Quebec's cinematic history.
[André Duchesne]
"Deux femmes en or: au-delà des parties de fesses"
'' La Presse'', May 16, 2020.
References
Works cited
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External links
*{{IMDb title, 0065632
1970 films
1970 comedy films
Canadian sex comedy films
Films directed by Claude Fournier
Films shot in Quebec
Films set in Quebec
French-language Canadian films
1970s Canadian films