Loved, Honoured and Bruised
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Canada, 1980 (documentaire, 25 minutes, couleurs, anglais)
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Autre titre :
« ...et pour le pire »
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| Image : © Office national du film du Canada |
Description du film :
« Bon nombre de femmes qui sont battues régulièrement par leur mari
choisissent de taire leur situation; la honte, l'humiliation et la crainte les
poussent à garder le silence. Le film raconte l'histoire de Jeannie Fox qui,
après avoir été mariée pendant seize années à un homme qui la battait et
l'injuriait, décida de le quitter. Recueillie dans un refuge pour femmes
battues, elle parvint, avec l'aide des travailleuses sociales, à obtenir la
séparation et à se refaire une vie avec ses enfants. »
-- Office national du film du Canada
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| Générique (partiel) : |
| Scénario : | Gail Singer |
| Produit par : |
Jerry Krepakevich, Michael Scott |
| Images : |
Susan Trow |
| Montage images : |
Judith Merritt |
| Société de production : |
National Film Board of Canada /
Office national du film du Canada |
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Citations sur Loved, Honoured and Bruised [en anglais]
« [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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Bibliographie sur Loved, Honoured and Bruised
Brèves parties de livres
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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.
[en anglais] (pp. 76-78)
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