The Masculine Mystique (1984)
August 23, 1984Release Date
The Masculine Mystique (1984)
August 23, 1984Release Date

Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Char Davies
Amurie

Stefan Wodoslawsky
Blue

Char Davies
Amurie

Macklusky
Self

Sam Grana
Alex

Eleanor MacKinnon
Shelley

Felice Grana
Felice

Stefanie Grana
Stefanie

Mort Ransen
Mort

Annebet Zwartsenberg
Bet

Chaya Ransen
Chaya

Yoshi Ransen
Yoshi

Joshua Ransen
Josh

Ashley Murray
Ashley

Guillaume Murray
Guillaume

Maite Murray
Maite

Andy Thomson
Executive Producer

David Wilson
Writer

Andrew Kitzanuk
Director of Photography

Robert Verrall
Executive Producer

Jean-Guy Normandin
Sound Recordist

Jacques Drouin
Sound Assistant

Paul Demers
Assistant Editor

Michel Hazel
Sound Assistant

John Knight
Sound Editor

Jean-Maurice de Ernsted
Gaffer

Claude Derasp
Gaffer

Louis Hone
Music Sound Design and Processing

Richard Nichol
Sound Assistant

Grace Avrith
Production Coordinator

Ken McCready
Associate Producer

Yves Gendron
Sound Assistant

Hans Peter Strobl
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Maurice Pion
Grip

Richard Bujold
Assistant Camera

Nash Read
Assistant Camera

Simon Leblanc
Assistant Camera

Marie Tonto-Donati
Administration

Giles Walker
Director / Writer / Producer

John N. Smith
Writer / Director / Producer

David Wilson
Writer / Editor

Richard Gresko
Music
Media.

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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
The Masculine Mystique is a Canadian docufiction film directed by Giles Walker and John N. Smith and released in 1984.
The film centres on Alex (Sam Grana), Blue (Stefan Wodoslawsky), Mort (Mort Ransen) and Ashley (Ashley Murray), four men whose perspectives on the changing nature of men's sexual and romantic relationships with women in the wake of feminism are explored through both documentary "interviews" and narrative vignettes. Alex is a married father who is having an extramarital affair; Ashley is a single parent, recently separated from his wife but not ready to commit to a new relationship; Mort is a divorced man who is seeking a new relationship; Blue is a single man seeking the "perfect woman".
The film, which had a budget of $489,590 (equivalent to $1,269,218 in 2023), was the first in the National Film Board of Canada's series of "alternative dramas" in the 1980s and early 1990s, which combined dramatic and documentary film techniques. It was created and scripted through an improvisational process, with the film's characters being portrayed by National Film Board filmmakers and their family members rather than by professional actors.
The characters of Alex and Blue were subsequently spun off into the follow-up films 90 Days and The Last Straw, which explored Alex becoming a sperm donor and Blue entering a relationship with a Korean mail-order bride. 90 Days was the most commercially and critically successful of the three films, garnering several nominations at the 1986 Genie Awards. The Masculine Mystique won a Red Ribbon at the 1985 American Film and Video Festival.