It was not perfect or always on target, the Gala Québec Cinéma broadcast Sunday evening on Noovo, but it was successful enough to overshadow the state corporation, which had cruelly let it down , one year shy of 25e birthday. Host Jay Du Temple (the Louis-José Houde of the next few years of this gala?) seemed to have drawn from the same bowl of ingredients as his famous counterpart: a solid opening number with bite, class, self-deprecation, kindness (yes!) and an obvious passion for his subject. “I’m happy that we’re here this evening for a party that almost didn’t happen again,” quipped actor Rémy Girard, to whom we paid a vibrant tribute (it was also he who hosted the very first edition of this gala).
I too believe, like the latter, that cinema is anything but an ephemeral art. It is an incredible marker of our times and our identity. As evidenced by the moving film CRAZY, which was named “favorite film of Quebecers of the last 25 years”, this very Quebecois fresco in which “toasts with an iron and coats piled on the bed” touched audiences around the world, with a subject ( the homosexuality of the son) which had everything to offend sensitivities. “When I watch a Quebec film, it’s me that I see, it’s us,” said the host in his opening number. “It’s so important. Because, when we see ourselves on the screen, we exist! “. Words that hit the mark and which restored nobility to an art and an industry that fully deserve it. Long live our cinema!
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