Le Mouton noir

Le Mouton Noir in English The Black Sheep is a Quebec documentary produced in 1992 by the National Film Board of Canada NFB. Jacques Godbout directed and starred in the film. Its style belongs to the Quebec cinma direct school of filmmaking.

The film is focused not only on the reaction of the Quebec people as a whole but also on individuals and their experiences right in the middle of the Meech Lake aftermath. The main protagonists are five young politicians later to leave their mark on Quebec society Michel Bissonnette, Denis Coderre, Mario Dumont, Joseph Facal, and JeanFranois Simard. Their destinies are all altered and shaped by the historical event for example Simard becomes a sovereigntist and will leave the Liberal Party for the Parti Qubcois Dumont will also slam the Liberal door to later help create and finally become leader of the Action dmocratique du Qubec, or ADQ, and support the Yes side of the 1995 referendum on independence.It also features many other Quebec public figures, notably political scientist Daniel Latouche a past senior adviser to Ren Lvesque, then Premier Robert Bourassa, sovereigntist and aspirant to Bourassas throne Jacques Parizeau, and fellow filmmaker Denys Arcand. Bourassa speaks of the Accord, his related famous speech in the National Assembly of Quebec and the cancer that would soon bring him to his demise. Arcand gives his point of view on the similarities between the moment in question and another important event in Quebec nationalism and independentism, the 1980 referendum. The fall of the Accord indeed led to the second referendum on independence. He is himself the director of Le confort et lindiffrence, a similar analytic film about the 1980 plebiscite, and is brought into Le Mouton Noir especially for that reason. ........

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