Bar Salon (1974)

Directed by

André Forcier

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man owns a failing seedy bar in Montreal. He takes a new job at a busier suburban bar and gets into trouble with a dancer, leading to a drunken brawl and jail.

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What happens

Bar Salon is a Canadian drama film, directed by André Forcier and released in 1974. Considered to be the film which first established Forcier's reputation as a major filmmaking talent, the film stars Guy L'Écuyer as Charles Méthot, the owner of a seedy bar in Montreal which is failing due to its lack of clientele; desperate, he turns to his friend Larry (Gélinas Fortin) for help, and is offered a new job as manager of a busier suburban bar, where he is drawn into an affair with a topless dancer who steals his car, and eventually ends up in jail after a drunken brawl. The cast also includes Madeleine Chartrand as Charles's daughter Michèle, Jacques Marcotte as Michèle's fiancé Robert, and Albert Payette, François Berd and Gaby Persechino as the few remaining patrons of Charles's bar. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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