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"Interested in using formal strategies to make accessible, pleasureable films, Fernie and Wiessman bent Studio D aesthetic rules in Forbidden Love. [...] Their first line of attack was the decision not to have voice-over narration."
-- Elizabeth Anderson


Source:
Anderson, Elizabeth. "Studio D's Imagined Community: From Development (1974) to Realignment (1986-1990)." In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, edited by Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, and Janine Marchessault. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. (p. 54)