Even if it is the decision of the public broadcaster, Radio-Canada, which airs Everybody talks about it, the decision announced this week to no longer broadcast the Gala Québec Cinéma did not fail to be criticized on Sunday evening. First by Anaïs Favron, who has taken over the seat of the jester after a long break, and by the guests of the first segment.
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It is the always engaged Émile Proulx-Cloutier who made the most powerful statement on the case. “Culture, honestly, is a series of links, […] that need to be developed. It doesn’t mean to put it in people’s mouths, but to cause love at first sight, “he said, referring to people who discovered the performing arts by listening Beautiful Sundays. He continues his comparison by affirming that if the gala was one of the links in this chain, a weak link we understand, the solution is not to drop the gala “because it does not rise”, but to strengthen the other links in the chain: education in the arts, distribution of films in the regions, broadcasting at prime time, in short, the encounter between Quebec cinema and its audience. “When it’s going to be healthy, the gala will lift,” he concluded.