Word: mankiewicz
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...BONS DEBARRAS easily could have emerged from the studio ugly, depressing, and boring. Instead, director Mankiewicz has fashioned a film of lyrical and penetrating beauty. His diverse, lovely palette of lights and shades, broad afternoons and black nights, breathes freshness into every shot of a limited setting. His magnificent cast infuses humdrum, rather sad low-lifers with humor and elegance. Set in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec and filmed in late fall and early winter, Les Bons Debarras (Good Riddance) possesses a certain steamily frosty quality, like the view through a window breathed on in January...