Dirty Money (film)

Dirty Money
La Maudite Galette
Directed by	Denys Arcand
Produced by	Marguerite Duparc Pierre Lamy
Written by	Jacques Benoit
Starring	Marcel Sabourin Luce Guilbeault René Caron Gabriel Arcand
Cinematography	Alain Dostie
Edited by	Marguerite Duparc
Release dates	September 7, 1972 (1972-09-07)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

Dirty Money (French: La Maudite Galette) is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, directed by Denys Arcand and released in 1972.^[1] It was the first feature-length narrative film directed by Arcand.^[2]

The film stars René Caron and Luce Guilbeault as Rolland and Berthe Soucy, a couple who are financially struggling. Rolland's wealthy uncle Arthur (Léo Gagnon) comes for a visit and offers them a gift of money to help out, but withdraws the offer after they quibble with the amount; after he leaves, Rolland and Berthe decide to go to his house and rob him. Unbeknownst to them, however, their reclusive tenant Ernest (Marcel Sabourin) follows them with a criminal plan of his own.

References

↑ "La maudite galette". Estrie Plus, December 4, 2013.
↑ Michel Coulombe and Marcel Jean, Le dictionnaire du cinéma québécois. Éditions Boréal, 1991. ISBN 9782890524231.

External links

Dirty Money at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Denys Arcand

A l'est d'Eaton (short, co-directed with Stéphane Venne, 1959)
Seul ou avec d'autres (co-directed with Denis Héroux and Stéphane Venne, 1962)
Cotton Mill, Treadmill (1970)
Dirty Money (1972)
Réjeanne Padovani (1973)
Gina (1975)
Comfort and Indifference (1982)
Empire, Inc. (TV mini-series episodes 2,5,6, 1983)
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (1984)
The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
Jesus of Montreal (1989)
Les lettres de la religieuse portugaise (TV, 1991)
Vue d'ailleurs (1992)
Love and Human Remains (1993)
Poverty and Other Delights (1996)
Stardom (2000)
The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
Days of Darkness (2007)
An Eye for Beauty (2014)

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