Comfort and Indifference

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| native_name = {{infobox name module|fr|Le confort et l'indifférence}}

| director = Denys Arcand

| producer = {{Plainlist|

  • Jean Dansereau
  • Roger Frappier}}

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| cinematography = Alain Dostie

| editing = Pierre Bernier

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| released = {{Film date|1982|2|7|df=y}}

| runtime = 109 minutes

| country = Canada

| language = French

| budget = $483,675

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Comfort and Indifference ({{langx|fr|Le confort et l'indifférence}}) is a 1982 documentary film by Denys Arcand, offering an analysis of the 1980 Quebec referendum, in which "sovereignty-association" was defeated as a first step to eventual secession from Canada. The film takes the position that the referendum result was a failure of courage and that the Québécois were numbed by prosperity and the explicitly Machiavellian manipulations of federalist leaders.

Production

The film had a budget of $483,675 ({{Inflation|CA|483,675|1981|fmt=eq}}).{{sfn|Evans|1991|p=265}}

Works cited

  • {{cite book|last=Evans |first=Gary |title=In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |date=1991 |url=https://archive.org/details/innationalintere0000evan |isbn=0802027849}}