Northwest Film Forum

Seminal to the development of Quebecois and Canadian cinema, LE CHAT DANS LE SAC is seldom seen outside Quebec. The film recounts the problematic romance between intellectual journalist Claude and his Anglo-Jewish actress girlfriend, Barbara. Combining Brechtian techniques via Godard and a quasi-documentary feel, LE CHAT is visually beautiful, intellectually incisive and probing. Not only does the film clarify the relationship between the emerging Qu̩b̩cois cinema of the early Sixties and the French New Wave, but it also pre-figures many of the debates that would consume Quebecois intellectuals for the coming decades, presenting them in an irresistibly innovative framework. No wonder LE CHAT is revered by younger Quebecois filmmakers and everyone else who's ever seen it. With a score by John Coltrane. 
In French with English subtitles.