Just Watch Me - Trudeau and the '70s Generation/Frenchkiss - La génération du rêve Trudeau

19991 h 15 min 51 secFilm: Documentary

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Direction: Catherine Annau

Production: Gerry FlahiveYves BisaillonLouise Lore

It wasn't easy growing up under the elegant and enigmatic Pierre Trudeau. In Just Watch Me, we meet eight people from across the country who did: Anglo and Franco, separatist and federalist, idealist and realist. People whose personal and national dreams are intertwined. They are the Trudeau generation--Canadians who grew up during the '70s, like director Catherine Annau, who looks at the lasting effects of Trudeau's audacious attempt to reconfigure the idea of Canada. This hip documentary travels across the country, its inspired cinematography showing us places we thought we knew--from the snowdrifts of Iqaluit to the towers of Calgary--in a whole new light. And it's all to the sounds the Trudeau kids grew up with: BTO, Bran Van 3000, Harmonium and Mitsou. Most of all, this is a love story that takes us into the heart of an era and the hearts of the people who will shape Canada's future--the Trudeau generation. In English and French with subtitles.

Subject categories


  • Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > BilingualismEnglish-French RelationsIntercultural Relations
  • Social Issues > Canadian CommunitiesSocietyYoung Adults
  • Politics and Government - Canada > Federal Politics and GovernmentPrime Ministers and Premiers
  • Literature and Language - Canada > Language Issues
  • History - Canada - 1946-Present > Politics and GovernmentPortraits
  • Civics/Citizenship > Ideologies

Credits


director
Catherine Annau
producer
Gerry Flahive
Yves Bisaillon
executive producer
Louise Lore
photography
Ronald Plante
sound
André Boisvert
editing
Craig Webster
sound editing
Chris Jannetta
Marc Lafontaine
Tim Smith
online editing
Warren Chin
music
Rick Tait
music clearances
Elizabeth Klinck
participation
André Gobeil
Jocelyne Perrier
Meg McDonald
John Duffy
Sylvain Marois
Evan Adams
Susanne Hilton
Doug Garson