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Vertige (1969 film)

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Vertige
Directed byJean Beaudin
Produced byGilles Boivin
Clément Perron
CinematographyJean-Claude Labrecque
Edited byÉric de Bayser
Music bySerge Garant
Production
company
Release date
  • 1969 (1969)
Running time
44 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Vertige is a Canadian film, directed by Jean Beaudin and released in 1969.[1] An examination of youth culture in the era,[2] the film uses psychedelic techniques to depict young people hedonistically seeking escape in sexual activity and drug use.[3]

The film won the Canadian Film Award for Best Film Over 30 Minutes at the 21st Canadian Film Awards in 1969, and Serge Garant received a special award for the film's score.[4]

In 2012, experimental filmmaker Marc Campbell released a recut of Vertige, replacing Garant's original soundtrack with a radically slowed down version of The Beatles' song "I Am the Walrus".[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Film news". Ottawa Journal, August 8, 1970.
  2. ^ Léo Bonneville, «Il faut abolir la notion de héros». Séquences, Vol. 89 (1977). pp. 4–12.
  3. ^ a b Lee Thomas-Mason, "Jean Beaudin’s trippy ’60s film soundtracked by The Beatles song ‘I Am The Walrus’". Far Out Magazine, July 3, 2019.
  4. ^ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 85-87.
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