Long prior to 'Reality TV,' Canadian filmmaker Allan King triggered a stir via blending people's deepest and public lives in his 1969 documentary A Married Couple. This observational cinema piece, which took an unscripted examine the city Edwards kinfolk, was once deemed too contentious to air via commissioning community CTV at the grounds of over the top nudity and obscenity. however, the documentary used to be authorized by way of the Cannes pageant, and it truly is now brought up as a milestone in realist filmmaking.
In Allan King's A Married Couple, Zoë Druick examines the movie within the context of past due Sixties cinematic and cultural hobbies. via a scene-by-scene synopsis and an research of up to date responses to the piece, she lines A Married Couple's impact on documentary and Canadian filmmaking. The 5th quantity within the Canadian Cinema sequence, this paintings is an obtainable and fascinating advent to a debatable movie and its attention-grabbing director.
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