Quote:
"Bridal Shower (1971) features various sisters, relatives and friends playing out a typical small-town bridal shower, revealing it for what it is, 'a North American pre-marital fertility ritual complete with humiliations, party games and fright masks'. Wilson's satire is dominated by a rambunctious sense of fun, so that we never lose touch with the women's humanity."
-- Tony Reif

Source:
Reif, Tony. "West Coast Filmmaking: 1: History." In Self Portrait: Essays on the Canadian and Quebec Cinemas, edited by Piers Handling and Pierre Véronneau. Translated by Marie-Claude Hecquet and Antoinette Vidal. Ottawa: Canadian Film Institute, 1980. [in French] (p. 131)