Au chic Resto Pop

Directed by Tahani Rached

Canada, 1990 (documentary, 85 minutes, colour, French)

Image: © National Film Board of Canada

Video (National Film Board of Canada) [French]

Film Description:
"A film on poverty in Montréal built around six songs that the characters have written together with the Québécois performer Steve Faulkner and which they perform themselves on screen. The music is rap, blues, rock, country and western, and deals with the universal themes of hunger, hope and love."
-- National Film Board of Canada (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by:	Tahani Rached
Produced by:	Éric Michel
Cinematography:	Jacques Leduc
Film Editing:	Monique Fortier
Music:	Steve Faulkner
Production Company:	Office national du film du Canada / National Film Board of Canada

(sources)

Quote about Au chic Resto Pop

"[Tahani Rached's] Au chic Resto Pop (1990) is one of the most accomplished socially engaged documentaries of the decade, dealing with impoverished and marginalized white francophone Québécois in a poor district of Montreal"
-- Bill Marshall (source)

Bibliography for Au chic Resto Pop

Journal Articles

Sanaker, John Kristian. "Au chic Resto Pop : le direct émancipateur." University of Toronto Quarterly 63, no. 4 (Summer 1994): 638-647. [in French]

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

Beauchamp, Michel, and Richard Grugeau. "Points de vue." Review of Au chic Resto Pop. 24 Images, November-December 1990. [in French]
Bérubé, Robert-Claude. "Au chic Resto Pop." Review of Au chic Resto Pop. Séquences, November 1990. [in French]
Carrière, Louise. "Une culture cinématographique dépoussiérée." Review of Au chic Resto Pop. Ciné-Bulles, December-February 1990-1991. [in French]
Côté, Mario, Marco de Blois, and Michel Euvrard. "Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois 1991." Interview with Tahani Rached. 24 Images, Spring 1991. [in French]
Euvrard, Michel. "Le resto du coeur." Interview with Tahani Rached. 24 Images, Spring 1991. [in French]
Grugeau, Gérard. "Oyez, oyez, braves gens!" Review of Au chic Resto Pop. 24 Images, November-December 1990. [in French]
Variety. "Au chic Resto Pop." Review of Au chic Resto Pop. Variety, October 1, 1990.

Web Sites about Au chic Resto Pop

National Film Board of Canada. "NFB -- Au chic Resto Pop." National Film Board of Canada. http://www3.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/index.php?id=25969.
Office national du film du Canada. "ONF -- Au chic Resto Pop." Office national du film du Canada. http://www3.onf.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=5015. [in French]