| | Steve Rifkin on Les bons débarras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Lockerbie suggests that despite the lack of any direct reference to nationalist politics in Les bons débarras, the film presents evidence of a "collective identity" which penetrates deeper than consciously revealed symbolism, and which manifests itself in individual identities and anxieties (1988: 122). |
 | | The goals of the Québec sovereignism are traditionally idealized, in part, as a shift from the strength historically drawn from the domestic, familial community toward strength to be gained in achieving social and economic self-sufficiency within Canada. |
 | | Les bons débarras, however, presents a community whose attempts to attain social integrity and economic self-sufficiency have utterly failed, and whose strength must be found only in retreat to the domestic sphere. |
| www.film.queensu.ca /Critical/Rifkin.html (1914 words) |