Gaz Bar Blues

Gaz Bar Blues is a 2003 Qubcois drama and comedy film directed by Louis Blanger. The film is set in 1989 in the outskirts of an unspecified Qubcois city.

Mr. Brochu, widower and suffering an initial parkinsons disease, would like to keep his family united by the work at the station but the dissatisfaction of the boys with the routine seems to send them away. Guy Danny Gilmore is a harmonica player that plays with a band and is often lacking during the turns, Rjean Sbastien Delorme is the most responsible but angry by rising crime and unhappy with his fathers way to manage the station. He is an amateur photographer and decides to reach Berlin to see the imminent fall of the wall. The film shows the incoming Revolutions of 1989 in background but life goes on normally around the Gaz Bar, which problems are the transition from gallons to litres, the construction of new selfservice stations and the arrival of Gobeil Daniel Brire, inspector of the company Champlain that owns the station.During the absence of Rjean, Alain starts working alone at the station, helped by Mr. Savard. Guy disappears fordays because of a car accident. When he come back, he has a quarrel with his father and leaves the home. Rjean writes quite often at home, telling of his experience and disillusion about the German reunification process. He sees the way in which the transition is managed as a kind of forced modernization, which suddenly clears the everyday life of East Germans, as well as the new selfservices will replace filling stations. ........

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