| The Great Ordinary Movie, or Joan of Arc is Alive and Well and Living in Quebec | |
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| French | Le Grand film ordinaire, ou Jeanne d'Arc n'est pas morte, se porte bien, et vit au Québec |
| Directed by | Roger Frappier |
| Produced by | Roger Frappier |
| Starring | Paule Baillargeon Jocelyn Bérubé Raymond Cloutier Suzanne Garceau Claude Laroche Guy Thauvette |
| Cinematography | Jérôme Dal Santo Pierre Mignot François Roux |
| Edited by | Pierre Lacombe |
| Distributed by | Faroun Films |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
The Great Ordinary Movie, or Joan of Arc is Alive and Well and Living in Quebec (French: Le Grand film ordinaire, ou Jeanne d'Arc n'est pas morte, se porte bien, et vit au Québec) is a Canadian improvisational docudrama film, directed by Roger Frappier and released in 1971.[1] Created in collaboration with the Grand Cirque ordinaire, a Montreal theatre troupe active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the film blends documentary scenes about contemporaneous life in Quebec with a filmed staging of the troupe's theatrical play T'es pas tannée Jeanne d'Arc, about Joan of Arc living in Quebec.[2]
The film had originally been envisioned as a straight documentary about the troupe, before evolving into its mixed docudrama form.[2]
The film premiered in February 1971 at Montreal's Verdi Cinema.[3] It was later considered to be one of the first and most important progenitors of the independent film movement in Quebec in the 1970s.[2]