Réjeanne Padovani (1973)
January 1, 1973Release Date
Réjeanne Padovani (1973)
January 1, 1973Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Jean Lajeunesse
Vincent Padovani
Pierre Thériault
Dominique Di Moro
Luce Guilbeault
Rejeanne Padovani
J. Léo Gagnon
Georges Bouchard, Road Minister
Roger Le Bel
Leon Desaulniers
Thérèse Cadorette
Mrs. Aline Bouchard
Margot Mackinnon
Stella Desaulniers
Hélène Loiselle
Mrs. Biron
Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Jean-Pierre Caron
Frédérique Collin
Hélène Caron
René Caron
Mayor Jean-Guy Biron
Roger Lebel
Leon Desaulniers
Céline Lomez
Manon
Denys Arcand
Director
Paule Baillargeon
Louise Thibaudeau
Jean-Pierre Saulnier
Maurice Del Veccio
Gabriel Arcand
Carlo Ferrara
Marguerite Duparc
Producer
Walter Boudreau
Composer
André Melançon
Lucien Bertrand
Julien Poulin
Mike Delvecchio
Alain Dostie
Cinematographer
Bernard Gosselin
Sgt. Bernard Gosselin
Henry Gamer
Sam Tannenbaum
Stan Gibbons
Lennie Tannenbaum
Guylène Lefort
Micheline Bluteau
Marguerite Plante
A militant
Normand Lanthier
Normand Lombardi
Stéphane Carrière
Stéphane Padovani
Sophie Carrière
Sophie Padovani
Attila Dory
The photograph
Claude Thibault
A militant
Jacques Leduc
A militant
Roger Frappier
A militant
Michel Bouchard
A militant
Raymond Dessaint
A musician
Évelyne Robitaille
A musician
Jean-Luc Morin
A musician
Josiane Roy
A musician
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Original Music Composer
Jacques Benoît
Writer
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Réjeanne Padovani is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, written and directed by Denys Arcand and released in 1973. It was his second narrative feature film as a director, but the first for which he was also the screenwriter alongside novelist Jacques Benoît (who also wrote his previous solo effort).
An examination of political corruption, the film stars Jean Lajeunesse as Vincent Padovani, a construction contractor with mafia ties who has just completed work on a major autoroute project, and is planning a major dinner party to thank the politicians who awarded him the contract. However, as the dinner approaches his plans are disrupted, both professionally by the launch of a public protest by several families whose homes were expropriated for the highway construction and personally by the return of Réjeanne (Luce Guilbeault), his ex-wife who is now married into the family of rival contractor Sam Tannenbaum (Henry Gamer).Réjeanne Padovani and Wedding in White were the only two Canadian films screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. The French newspaper Le Monde called Réjeanne Padovani one of the best films screened at the festival. The film was a Canadian Film Award nominee for Best Feature Film at the 25th Canadian Film Awards in 1973.It was later screened at the 1984 Festival of Festivals as part of Front & Centre, a special retrospective program of artistically and culturally significant films from throughout the history of Canadian cinema.During Quebec's Charbonneau Commission inquiry into corruption in the awarding of construction contracts in the early 2010s, the film received renewed attention with some media outlets calling it "prophetic".