The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl

The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl (French: Le Viol d'une jeune fille douce) is a Canadian satirical comedy-drama film, directed by Gilles Carle and released in 1968.[1] The film stars Julie Lachapelle as Julie, a young sexually liberated woman who gets pregnant from a casual but consensual sexual encounter and wrestles with whether to have the baby or go for an abortion, while her older brothers Raphaël (Daniel Pilon), Gabriel (Donald Pilon) and Joachim (André Gagnon) decide, without listening to Julie's own perspective, that she has been raped and set off to find the "assailant", and themselves end up committing rape against another young woman.[2]

The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl
Le Viol d'une jeune fille douce
Directed byGilles Carle
Produced byPierre Lamy
André Lamy
Written byGilles Carle
StarringJulie Lachapelle
Katerine Mousseau
Daniel Pilon
Donald Pilon
André Gagnon
Music byPierre F. Brault
CinematographyBernard Chentrier
Edited byYves Langlois
Production
company
Onyx Films
Release date
  • December 25, 1968 (1968-12-25)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Following its Canadian theatrical premiere in 1968, the film was screened in the Director's Fortnight stream at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.[3]

References
  1. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Viol d’une jeune fille douce, Le – Film de Gilles Carle". Films du Québec, July 23, 2009.
  2. Christian Poirier, Le cinéma québécois: À la recherche d'une identité?, Volume 1. Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2004. ISBN 9782760517622. p. 82.
  3. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Les films québécois à Cannes à travers l’histoire". Films du Québec, April 28, 2019.


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