The Men (1971 film)

1971 Canadian film

The Men

French| Les Mâles
Directed by| Gilles Carle
Written by| Gilles Carle
Produced by| Louise Ranger
Starring| Donald Pilon
René Blouin
Andrée Pelletier
Cinematography| René Verzier
Edited by| Gilles Carle
Music by| Stéphane Venne

Production
company

Onyx Films

Distributed by| France Film

Release date

* March 3, 1971 (1971-03-03)

Running time

| 113 minutes
Country| Canada
Language| French

The Men (French: Les Mâles) is a Canadian crime comedy film, written and directed by Gilles Carle and released in 1971.[1] The film centres on Jean (Donald Pilon) and Émile (René Blouin), a lumberjack and a student who have been living off the grid in the wilderness, who decide that they need a woman to join them and head into town to look for one.[2] They resort to kidnapping Dolores (Katerine Mousseau), a prison guard who is the daughter of the village police chief, leading the villagers to mount a vigilante mob to capture Jean and Émile and bring them to justice.[3]

The film's cast also includes Andrée Pelletier and Guy L'Écuyer.

Martin Knelman of The Globe and Mail reviewed the film favourably, writing that "At his most brilliant, Carle achieves a form of comedy that's part Rabelaisian and part Keystone Kops, but just under the surface of slapstick raucousness there's a sense of desperation, of despair on the brink of violence and defeat. This double-sighted attitude is what gives Carle's movies their peculiar comic edge and their self-propelling energy."[3]

## Reception

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The film was seen by 302,950 people in France.[4]

## References

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1. ^ Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 143.
2. ^ Jacques Siclier, "'Les Mâles', de Gilles Carle". Le Monde, May 20, 1972.
3. ^ a b Martin Knelman, "Les Males: Carle's slapstick celebration of Quebec society". The Globe and Mail, June 17, 1972.
4. ^ Marshall 2001, p. 85.

## Works cited

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* Marshall, Bill (2001). Quebec National Cinema. McGill–Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-2103-8.

## External links

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* The Men at IMDb

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Films directed by Gilles Carle

* The Merry World of Leopold Z (1965)
* The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl (1968)
* The Men (1971)
* The True Nature of Bernadette (1972)
* The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)
* The Heavenly Bodies (1973)
* Normande (1975)
* The Angel and the Woman (1977)
* The Machine Age (1977)
* Fantastica (1980)
* The Plouffe Family (1981)
* The Great Chess Movie (1982)
* Maria Chapdelaine (1983)
* The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (1984)
* La guêpe (1986)
* 50 ans (1989)
* Poor Man's Pudding (1996)

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