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I Hate to Lose
197756 min 50 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Michael Rubbo
Production: Tom DalyArthur Hammond
Script: Michael Rubbo
Filmed in the predominantly anglophone, upper-middle-class Montréal riding of Westmount during the months preceding Québec's history-making election of November 15, 1976. I Hate to Lose documents a play within a play, a brisk, natural drama that sparkles with humour. The cameras follow closely behind leading local political contenders George Springate, Nick Auf der Maur, and Harold 'Shorty' Fairhead, chronicling the unfolding of an election campaign on the local hustings, and gleaning retrospective insights into anglophone neglect of the Parti Québécois's swelling popularity. (Follow-up film: Tigers and Teddy Bears.)
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Subject categories
- Politics and Government - Canada > ElectionsProvincial Politics and GovernmentQuébecQuébec Nationalism
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > English-French Relations
- History - Canada - 1946-Present > Québec
Credits
- director
- Michael Rubbo
- script
- Michael Rubbo
- editing
- Michael Rubbo
- producer
- Tom Daly
- executive producer
- Arthur Hammond
- photography
- Andreas Poulsson
- sound
- Joseph Champagne
- Michel Hazel
- sound editing
- André Galbrand
- narrator
- Michael Rubbo
- William Weintraub
- music
- Angèle Arsenault
- re-recording
- Michel Descombes