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The Quiet Illusion Waking from Quebec’s Slumber |
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· Read Barbara Kay’s column in The National Post Quebec’s Grand Illusion, National Post, October 22, 2008
· OCTOBRE 2008 - The Quiet Illusion in Ottawa Denis Julien et Joanne Marcotte, coproducers and coauthors of The Quiet Illusion participate at the first screening of the film outside Quebec. Orchestrated by the Free Thinking Film Society, the event is on Saturday, October 11th, at the Bronson Center in Ottawa. Read the Xpress Ottawa review and listen to a CBC interview given to the film’s director, Joanne Marcotte
· The Quiet Illusion on iChannel October 31st 2008, 9pm ET iChannel Intelligent Television is broadcasting The Quiet Illusion on Friday, October 31st, 2008, at 9pm ET.
· The Quiet Illusion ON DVD ! Get The Quiet Illusion on the Internet |
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· FEBRUARY 2008 - OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE QUIET ILLUSION Official lunch of The Quiet Illusion in the Fraser Institute Montreal’s office.
· WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE QUIET ILLUSION BARBARY KAY - The National Post « If Quebec's political choices irritate and baffle you -- or if you erroneously believe Quebec delivers its oft-vaunted "social justice" at no hidden cost -- see this revelatory DVD (on sale at www. kafkaboutik.com).See it to be informed, but if for no other reason, see it to penetrate the wall of silence used by the mainstream francophone media to shield their audiences against criticism of the "sacrosanct" Quebec Model. (…) Reverence for the Quebec Model depends on what anthropologists would call "magical thinking." Quebecers have been taught that money is something you get from the feds or the wealthy, not something you make. » HENRY AUBIN - Montreal Gazette « This Quebec-made documentary does what no francophone film has ever done before: it systematically challenges many of the province’s sacred cows, starting with the untouchability of « le modèle québécois ». (…) This Quebec movie requires looking in the mirror. » GRAEME HAMILTON - The National Post « A new disaster movie is playing in Quebec theatres, but this one features no tidal waves or nuclear Armageddon. The nightmare scenario in L'Illusion tranquille involves an ageing society living beyond its means, unable to shake the grip of meddlesome government and powerful trade unions. The place is Quebec, and the year is 2007." MACLEANS « The self-produced documentary has provoked a veritable crise de conscience in the province's media and cultural circles, simply by pointing out what is becoming increasingly obvious: Quebec is broken."
· THE QUIET ILLUSION IN THE PRESS Quebec’s Grand Illusion, Barbara Kay, National Post, October 22, 2008 New film systematically challenges Quebec’s sacred cows , Henry Aubin - The Gazette, January 16, 2007 Quebec film hits socialist nerve, Graeme Hamilton - National Post’s Front page, January 27, 2007 Subsidies fuel Quebec’s Illusion, Barry Cooper - Calgary Herald, January 31, 2007 CBC resists real diversity, Joseph Quesnel, Winnipeg Sun, Joseph Quesnel - Winnipeg Sun, February 2, 2007 Spare a dime, frère?, Macleans, page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4- March 19, 2007, Jason Kirby, Martin Patriquin, Colin Campbell
· DOWNLOAD THE FILM’S POSTER
Download The Quiet Illusion film poster.
· JOANNE MARCOTTE, DIRECTOR OF THE QUIET ILLUSION, ON THE CASTONGUAY COMMITTEE On February 29th, 2008, Joanne Marcotte, Vice-Chair of Quebec’s Task Force on the Financing of Quebec’s Health System, was invited to participate on a panel with the Honorable Mike Harris, and Dr. Brian Day, President of the Canadian Medical Association. Read the introductory remarks that she delivered at the event: The Canada Networking Conference and Exhibition 2008, organized by the Manning Centre for Democracy. |