Le Temps des bouffons (1993)
- Directed by
- Pierre Falardeau
- Genre
- documentary film, polemical lampoon
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 15 min
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Quebecois filmmaker compares English rule in Ghana to Canadian dominance in Quebec. The film shows the 200th anniversary celebration of the Beaver Club of Montreal as the narrator speaks slowly and angrily about colonial elites.
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What happens
Le Temps des bouffons (French for Time of the Buffoons) is a short film created (and narrated) in 1985 by Québécois director Pierre Falardeau. It compares English rule in Ghana with Canadian dominance in Quebec by showing the 200th anniversary celebration of the Beaver Club of Montreal. Falardeau speaks slowly and angrily during scenes of the Canadian élite laughing and toasting each other, some in pseudo-Colonial costume. The film was shot in 1985 but never shown until 1993. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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