Patricia and Jean-Baptiste
FrenchPatricia et Jean-Baptiste
Directed byJean Pierre Lefebvre
Written byJean-Pierre Lefebvre
Produced byMarguerite Duparc
StarringJean-Pierre Lefebvre
Patricia Kaden-Lacroix
CinematographyMichel Régnier
Edited byMarguerite Duparc
Music byRaôul Duguay
Andrée Paul
Les Tiqueclaques
Production
company
Films JP Lefebvre
Release date
  • September 17, 1968 (1968-09-17)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Patricia and Jean-Baptiste (French: Patricia et Jean-Baptiste) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre and released in 1968.[1] The film stars Lefebvre as Jean-Baptiste, a factory worker who is directed by his employer to take Patricia (Patricia Kaden-Lacroix), a woman who has recently emigrated from France to take a job as secretary at the factory, on a tour of Montreal, during which he both develops a romantic interest in Patricia and transforms his own dismissive view of the city.[2]

The film was partially inspired by, but not a literal retelling of, Lefebvre's own relationship with his wife, film producer and French immigrant Marguerite Duparc.[3]

Lefebvre's 1984 film Le jour S... revisited the story of Jean-Baptiste, following his divorce and his initiation of a relationship with a new woman.[3] Unlike Patricia and Jean-Baptiste, however, Lefebvre did not play the role of Jean-Baptiste himself in the sequel, instead casting actor Pierre Curzi.[3]

In 1990, the film was chosen as one of the 1960s representatives in Montreal à travers trois décennies de cinéma québécois, a retrospective program of films depicting Montreal, alongside the films À tout prendre, The Cat in the Bag (Le chat dans le sac), The Merry World of Leopold Z (La vie heureuse de Léopold Z) and Between Salt and Sweet Water (Entre la mer et l'eau douce).[4]

References

  1. ↑ Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 168.
  2. ↑ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Patricia et Jean-Baptiste – Film de Jean Pierre Lefebvre". Films du Québec, April 10, 2009.
  3. 1 2 3 Jay Scott, "Conquering Cannes: Canada's best filmmaker has good reason to smile". The Globe and Mail, 18 May 1984.
  4. ↑ Stan Shatenstein, "Film retrospective focuses on image Montrealers have of themselves and their city". Montreal Gazette, January 16, 1990.


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