Au pays de Zom

(1982)

★ 7 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Drama, Comedy, Music

Year: 1982

Runtime: 77 мин

Country: Canada

Director: Gilles Groulx

Cast: Joseph Rouleau, Françoise Berd, Gaston Lepage, René Racine, Charles E. Trudeau, Christiane Alarie, Marie-France Lamoureux, Michèle Mercure, Danielle Schneider, Omer Duranceau

Plot

A film-opera divided into nine segments, Au pays de Zom tells a day in the life of Mister Zom, a capitalist infatuated with his own person, whose conformism is only matched by his artistic velleity. A thematic sequel to his movie filmed with Mexican peasants, here Groulx asks, by making a business man sing, a second question on happiness: this time about the ones for whom happiness is linked with the possession of overabundance. He delivers, by developing the theatrical dimension with great emphasis, a social pamphlet with a strong satirical charge that he himself qualified as a "neo-surrealist fantasy".