Gina

His first film following the international acclaim awarded Rejeanne Padovanl, Denys Arcand’s Gina demonstrates the same skill, satirical bite and political acumen of the earlier film. Again concentrating more on anecdote than action, Arcand situates the story in a run-down country hotel in Quebec, where certain characters converge to play out the allegorical corrupllon of Quebec society: Gina (Céllne Lomez) is a streetwise stripper caught in a trap of exploitation and organized crime: Dolores (Frédérique Collin) is an equally exploited employee of a textile factory; the filmmakers from the “Office national du cinema” (a not terribly discrete sneer at the NFB) do their own exploiting by looking lor trouble but staying out of it. Then there`s the brawling snowmobilers, who track Gina down and rape her. Bitter and compelling, The Globe and Mail’s Martin Knelman wrote that Gina “has the energy of pulp combined with the moral intelligence of a polilical expose.”