Citation :
« The persistence of this theme of the masquerade in the film [La femme de l'hôtel], of woman as performer rent between an identity constructed by others, and a being which is lost and unnameable, inscribes a notion of feminine specificity as alienation, expropriation and schizophrenia. »
-- Brenda Longfellow

Source :
LONGFELLOW, Brenda. « The Search for voice: La femme de l'hôtel » [en anglais], dans Dialogue : cinéma canadien et québécois = Dialogue: Canadian and Quebec Cinema, sous la direction de Michael Dorland, Seth Feldman et Pierre Véronneau, Montréal, Mediatexte Publications, 1987. [anglais / français] (p. 273)