Au pays de Zom

Overview

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".

Cast

Joseph Rouleau

M Zom

Françoise Berd

Mme. Zom

Gaston Lepage

Gaston

René Racine

Jardinier

Charles E. Trudeau

Chauffer de M Zom

Christiane Alarie

Une secrétaire

Marie-France Lamoureux

Une secrétaire

Michèle Mercure

Une secrétaire

Danielle Schneider

Une secrétaire

Omer Duranceau

Homme d'affaire

Maurice Brossard

Homme d'affaire

Richard Gauthier

Garçon a la table