The Seal of the Confessional: Robert Lepage’s Le Confessionnal in Social and Cultural Context
The Quiet Revolution brought an end to Catholic hegemony in Québec culture and society. Despite the Church’s fall from power, Catholicism did not disappear from Québec society after the Quiet Revolution. The continued importance of Catholicism in conjunction with the dramatic shift to secular instit...
| Subtitles: | The 2015 International Conference on Religion and Film in Istanbul |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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The journal of religion and film
Year: 2016, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-24 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lepage, Robert 1957-
/ Le Confessionnal
/ Province
/ Catholicism
/ The Modern
/ Laicism
/ Film
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| RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CH Christianity and Society KBQ North America KDB Roman Catholic Church |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | The Quiet Revolution brought an end to Catholic hegemony in Québec culture and society. Despite the Church’s fall from power, Catholicism did not disappear from Québec society after the Quiet Revolution. The continued importance of Catholicism in conjunction with the dramatic shift to secular institutions and values creates a palpable tension in Québec public and private life. One film that explores this tension explicitly is the 1995 drama, Le Confessionnal. The film was written and directed by Robert Lepage, one of Québec’s, and Canada’s, most versatile artists. This article explores the primary existential theme - the relationship between the Catholic past (1952) and the secular present (1989) - by examining plot, character, and symbolism, particularly the use of color. Just as the main characters cannot escape their family history, so too, the film implies, must Québec come to terms with its past, within which the Catholic Church played such an important role. |
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| ISSN: | 1092-1311 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion and film
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