La Florida

Certain Films, a select few, can change the way you see the world. These films are expressions of a collective effort that take hundreds of professional artists, technicians, engineers, and actors of the highest caliber, working towards the ultimate goal: to produce a piece of Cinema that truly touches the viewer. That makes the audience open their mind's eye and see the world around them for what it really is or what it could be. Other Directors and Writers see this film and are undoubtedly inspired to raise their own standard even higher. Having never known one could produce a work of such high quality they strive to surpass it.

This film is a marvel - charming, witty, surprising, moving, clever, and beautiful.

In conception, _La Florida_ is a telling satire about the Americanization of Quebec's petite bourgeoisie. Although it begins promisingly, the implausibilities of the script combine with the perfunctory performances of its two "imported" Canadian stars, Margot Kidder and Michael Sarrazin, to make the film most unsatisfactory by the end. A disappointing experience, the film fails to deliver what it begins by promising. Rémy Girard and Pauline Lapointe, however, are excellent in the leading roles. They almost redeem the film.