Loved, Honoured and Bruised
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Canada, 1980 (documentary, 25 minutes, colour, English)
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Also known as
"...et pour le pire"
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| Image: © National Film Board of Canada |
Film Description:
"Jeannie, married sixteen years, left her husband because he physically
and mentally abused her. With the help of social workers and the welfare
and legal systems, she obtained a separation and started a new life for
herself and her children. This film shows the various stages involved in this process."
-- National Film Board of Canada
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| Film Credits (partial): |
| Written by: |
Gail Singer |
| Produced by: |
Jerry Krepakevich, Michael Scott |
| Cinematography: |
Susan Trow |
| Film Editing: |
Judith Merritt |
| Production Company: |
National Film Board of Canada /
Office national du film du Canada |
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Quotes about Loved, Honoured and Bruised
"[Loved, Honoured And Bruised], her 1979 half-hour study of a battered wife and her husband, is [Gail Singer's] best known piece of work. When she made it she 'sweated' over a line in her narration where she advanced the idea that the battered child could well become the adult who in turn is involved in the same situation. There wasn't much data around to support this thesis: she was relying on her own analysis of what she'd discovered. And her own feelings. But that, she maintains, is what all film making is about: an exploration. It's emotional as well as analytical. And her documentaries are no exception. She looks to be moved, to be surprised or shocked. More than anything, she does them to find something she didn't know before. Now she is about to update the film, to see what happened to everyone since."
-- Peter Goddard
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"David is the enigmatic star of Loved, Honoured and Bruised. The half-hour documentary tells the true story of David and his wife, Jeannie, a fresh-faced, gentle woman in her late 30s who took their five little daughters and walked out one day when she thought he was going to kill her. As she edged past him to reach the children's suitcase, he clouted her so hard that he perforated her eardrum. I went to see this small and honest film by Gail Singer because I was uneasy about a spate of letters reacting to my column several weeks ago about Marianne, the beaten wife. Marianne, an articulate, middle-class wife not unlike Jeannie, had told me about her agonized terror of her husband. Most of the women who wrote expressed sympathetic anger on Marianne's behalf. Most of the men who wrote said that Marianne must 'seek tyranny', 'have rocks in her head', 'enjoy punishment'. Their chorus, above all, was 'Why the hell doesn't she get out?'"
-- Michele Landsberg
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"Studio D films really helped women to live their lives better and more fully. This gave them the courage to continue with the struggle. It gave them the courage to speak out about things that they didn't dare. Gail Singer's Loved, Honoured and Bruised helped women to identify issues around violence committed against women and their children"
-- Dorothy Todd Hénaut
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Bibliography for Loved, Honoured and Bruised
Brief Sections of Books
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Landsberg, Michele. Women and Children First: A Provocative Look at Modern Canadian Women at Work and at Home. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1982.
(pp. 76-78)
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