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"India is coded by the film [Bye Bye Blues] as the colonial experience immersed in sexuality and sensuality (beautiful, enigmatic Indian men and women, kindly native servants, love-making on silk sheets with drifting white mosquito nets, and so on); Canada, on the other hand, is the land of denial where the reality principle reigns (the infinite flatness of the prairies, autumnal colours, sexual frustration and rural morality)."
-- Michael O'Pray


Source:
O'Pray, Michael. "Bye Bye Blues." Review of Bye Bye Blues. Monthly Film Bulletin, October 1990. (p. 290)