Here and Now (1970 film) explained

Here and Now
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Director:Denis Héroux
Producer:John Dunning
Starring:Danielle Ouimet
Chantal Renaud
Celine Lomez
Louise Turcot
Jacques Riberolles
Gilles Chartrand
Music:François Cousineau
Cinematography:René Verzier
Editing:Film House, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Studio:Cinépix
Distributor:CIC/CFP
Runtime:93 minutes
Country:Canada
Language:French
Budget:$200,000
Gross:$2.5 million

Here and Now (French: L'Initiation) is a 1970 French-Canadian film directed by Denis Héroux. The film is seen as a sequel to Valérie also directed by Héroux. The film has been called maple syrup porn.[1] L’Initiation grossed more money than its predecessor, making it one of the highest-grossing Canadian films at the domestic box office.

Plot

Victoire (Renaud), A University of Montreal student, has an affair with a famous French author and professor Gervais Messiandre (Riberolles) after being disappointed with her first sexual experience with her boyfriend, Pierre (Chartrand). While Victoire is having the affair with Gervais, Pierre is seeing Victoire's friend and roommate Nadine (Ouimet). Victorie and Gervais spend a couple of nights together in a hotel in Montreal but return to their lives shortly after.

Production

Here and Now started filming in September 1969, and ended on October 18, with a budget of $200,000 .

Release

The film was released in Montreal on 29 January 1970, and grossed $2.5 million . The film grossed $1,883,000 in Canada making it the second-highest-grossing film of all time in Canada, behind Claude Fournier's Deux femmes en or, also released in 1970, which grossed $2.5 million.[2]

The film was entered in competition at the 22nd Canadian Film Awards in 1970,[3] although Cinepix Film Properties, the film's studio, subsequently withdrew it and Love in a Four Letter World from the competition after an article in Time implied that the Canadian Film Award jury was unsympathetic to the films' sexual content.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Maple Syrup Porn: The Secret History of Quebec Popular Cinema. Canuxploitation,com. 4 February 2017.
  2. Variety. November 24, 1976. Canadian Films Grosses. 32.
  3. Betty Lee, "Fourteen films in the running for Etrog's golden approval". The Globe and Mail, September 19, 1970.
  4. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115216817/ "Two movies formally withdrawn"