Tag Archives: Claude Jutra
Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)
Claude Jutra’s Mon Oncle Antoine takes place during what Canadians often call the Grande Noirceur, the popular term for the government of Quebec’s far-right-wing Premier Maurice Duplessis. From 1944 to his death in 1959, Duplessis broke strikes, supported the control of the Catholic Church over education, persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses, and introduced Bill 19, a Canadian […]