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Vertige (1969 film)

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1969 Canadian film
Vertige
Directed byJean Beaudin
Produced byGilles Boivin
Clément Perron
CinematographyJean-Claude Labrecque
Edited byÉric de Bayser
Music bySerge Garant
Production
company
National Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • 1969 (1969)
Running time44 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Vertige is a Canadian film, directed by Jean Beaudin and released in 1969. An examination of youth culture in the era, the film uses psychedelic techniques to depict young people hedonistically seeking escape in sexual activity and drug use.

The film won the Canadian Film Award for Best Film Over 30 Minutes at the 21st Canadian Film Awards in 1969, and Serge Garant received a special award for the film's score.

In 2012, experimental filmmaker Marc Campbell released a recut of Vertige, replacing Garant's original soundtrack with a radically slowed down version of The Beatles' song "I Am the Walrus".

References

  1. "Film news". Ottawa Journal, August 8, 1970.
  2. Léo Bonneville, «Il faut abolir la notion de héros». Séquences, Vol. 89 (1977). pp. 4–12.
  3. ^ Lee Thomas-Mason, "Jean Beaudin’s trippy ’60s film soundtracked by The Beatles song ‘I Am The Walrus’". Far Out Magazine, July 3, 2019.
  4. Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 85-87.

External links

Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Animated Short, Best Live Action Short and Best Theatrical Short
Theatrical Short
(1949–1996)
Live Action Short
(1986–present)
Animated Short
(1968–present)
These two films were given honorable mentions rather than officially winning the award, but are included here as no other winner was named above them.


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