By Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International
Filmmaker and former Montrealer John Walker discusses his film, Quebec My Country Mon Pays, and the hundreds of thousands of English Montrealers who reluctantly felt they had to leave Quebec.
André Lavoie, Collaborateur
Lavoie touches on John Walker’s intimate perspective on a tumultuous time — growing up in a protected space where he did not hear the raging anger until the first bombs and the first insults of his fellow hockey players on outdoor skating rinks. Walker was awakened to a sense of alienation that others already knew: being a minority within a minority majority in their own country.
Rating: ★★★ 1/2
With Laura Casella, Global News Morning Montreal
Director John Walker joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about his latest movie, Québec My Country Mon Pays.
Review by Michel Coulombe
Film columnist Michel Coulombe reviews Transformers: The Last Knight and Quebec My Country Mon Pays on the exodus of anglophones following the Quiet Revolution.
Listen to an interview with John Walker, the maker of Quebec My Country, Mon Pays which was screened at La Cinematheque Quebecoise de Montreal on Monday, 19th. He discussed his personal history and the Quebec’s Quiet Revolution which took place in the 1960’s and unleashed cultural and political changes that lead to the separatist movement and the FLQ crisis.
By Alex Rose, Cult Montreal
John Walker discusses the challenges of telling a personal story, but recognizes how it helped him address a tumultuous period in both his own history and in Canada’s.
By Dan Delmar, Special to Montreal Gazette
Delmar considers the downsides of nationalism — for all parties involved — in his response to Quebec My Country Mon Pays.
With Stéphan Bureau, Radio-Canada
In Quebec My Country Mon Pays, filmmaker John Walker takes a historical and personal look at the 1960s and 1970s, which saw the birth of the independence movement and Quebec identity affirmation. These movements prompted many Anglo-Quebecers, including the filmmaker’s parents, to leave. According to Patricia Boushel, however, one of the problems with the documentary is that it deals with a reality that is no longer representative of the current situation between anglophones and francophones.
Les Méconnus
The English-speaking filmmaker John Walker, a native Montrealer, considers what it means to be a true “Quebecer” in the documentary Quebec My Country My Country.
L’initiative
In a film full of love and nostalgia, filmmaker John Walker, born in Montreal, unveils his complex relationship with Quebec as he traces the aftermath and the aftermath of the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s.
JOHN WALKER PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS “QUEBEC MY COUNTRY MON PAYS”
FEATURING DENYS ARCAND CHRISTINA CLARK EMILIE GELINAS JACQUES GODBOUT
LOUISE PELLETIER YOLANDE SIMARD PERRAULT PIERRE TETRAULT JOANNE WALKER AND PAUL WARREN
CINEMATOGRAPHER KATERINE GIGUERE EDITOR JEFF WARREN COMPOSER SANDY MOORE SOUND DESIGNER ALEX SALTER
LOCATION SOUND SYLVAIN VARY PRODUCERS ANN BERNIER JOHN WALKER WRITER, DIRECTOR & NARRATOR JOHN WALKER
produced in association with documentary Channel with the participation of the Canada Media Fund / Fonds des médias du Canada, Rogers Cable Network Fund,
Rogers Telefund; with the assistance of Nova Scotia Film Industry Tax Credit and The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit.
