The Red Kitchen (1980)
Overview
On a wedding day, women are confined to the kitchen to prepare the meal while the men wait to be served. While men talk politics and sports, women talk about their condition. A teenager observes the gap between the sexes. Co-directed by two actresses, Paule Baillargeon and Frederique Collin, The Red Kitchen is the birth of the Quebec women's cinema. The birth of the film was difficult, and funding has been largely achieved through donations from friends and a benefit concert. This war of the sexes takes place in a demanding formal research, based on the improvisation of the actors, whose preparation took place over long sessions in the workshop. The end result mixes black humour, horror and a very expressive fantasy that gave rise to heated debates.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $247,946.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | fr |
| Popularity | 1.995 |
Directed By
Paule Baillargeon
Frédérique Collin
Crew
Jean-Charles Tremblay
Esther Auger
Jacques Blain
Serge Beauchemin
Michel Descombes
Paule Baillargeon
Paule Baillargeon
Paule Baillargeon
Frédérique Collin
Frédérique Collin
Babalou Hamelin
Daniel Chrétien
Réal Ouellette
Lise Bédard
Louise Jobin
Micheline Foisy
Dale Turgeon
Lise Abastado
Claire Wojas
Marie La Haye
Claude Langlois
Normand Viau
Camille Maheux
Claude Des Gagné
Renée Roy
Marie-Andrée Brouillard
Jacques Laliberté
Yves Laferrière
TOP CAST
Michèle Mercure
The bride
Han Masson
Daybe
Catherine Brunelle
Darling
Marie Ouellet
Mireille
Monique Mercure
The mother
Valérie Déjoie
Estelle
Claude Maher
The groom
Gilles Renaud
The father
Guy Thauvette
Thibault Frenette
Raymond Cloutier
Patrice Quenneville
Jean-Pierre Saulnier
Armel
Pierre Curzi
Val Aimé
Bertrand Carrière
Julien Désru
Claude Laroche
Marc Tremblay
Ghyslain Tremblay
l'Indien
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