Au pays de Zom
1983·Canada·77 min.
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A film-opera divided into nine segments, Au pays de Zom tells a day in the life of Mister Zom, a capitalist infatuated with his own person, whose conformism is only matched by his artistic velleity. A thematic sequel to his movie filmed with Mexican peasants, here Groulx asks, by making a business man sing, a second question on happiness: this time about the ones for whom happiness is linked with the possession of overabundance. He delivers, by developing the theatrical dimension with great emphasis, a social pamphlet with a strong satirical charge that he himself qualified as a "neo-surrealist fantasy".
DirectorGilles Groulx
ScreenwriterGilles Groulx
MusicJacques Hétu
CinematographyAlain Dostie
CastChristiane Alarie·Françoise Berd·Marie-France Lamoureux·Gaston Lepage·Michèle Mercure·René Racine·Joseph Rouleau·Danielle Schneider
Original titleAu pays de Zom