Le confort et l'indifférence (1981)

Directed by

Denys Arcand

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 49m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary explores the 1980 Quebec referendum on sovereignty-association. It argues that voters rejected independence because they were satisfied with their material comfort and misled by federalist political tactics.

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What happens

Comfort and Indifference (French: Le confort et l'indifférence) is a 1982 documentary film by Denys Arcand, offering an analysis of the 1980 Quebec referendum, in which "sovereignty-association" 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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