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Au pays de Zom (1982)
Directed by Gilles Groulx
Overview
A film-opera divided into nine segments, Au pays de Zom tells a day in the life of Mister Zom, a capitalist infatuated with his own person, whose conformism is only matched by his artistic velleity. A thematic sequel to his movie filmed with Mexican peasants, here Groulx asks, by making a business man sing, a second question on happiness: this time about the ones for whom happiness is linked with the possession of overabundance. He delivers, by developing the theatrical dimension with great emphasis, a social pamphlet with a strong satirical charge that he himself qualified as a “neo-surrealist fantasy”.
Length 77 minutes
Actors
Joseph Rouleau | Françoise Berd | Gaston Lepage | René Racine | Charles E. Trudeau | Christiane Alarie | Marie-France Lamoureux | Michèle Mercure | Danielle Schneider | Omer Duranceau | Maurice Brossard | Richard Gauthier | Michel Bouchard | Jack Fisher | Raymond Poulin | Al Rochman | Dennis Sawyer | Lester Sayer | Richard Grenier | Michel Mailhot | Alain Boucher