Comfort and Indifference

Comfort and Indifference (French: Le confort et l'indifférence) is a 1982 documentary film by Denys Arcand, offering an analysis of the 1980 Quebec referendum, in which "sovereignty-association" was defeated as a first step to eventual secession from Canada. The film takes the position that the referendum result was a failure of courage and that the Québécois were numbed by prosperity and the explicitly Machiavellian manipulations of federalist leaders.

Comfort and Indifference
French	Le confort et l'indifférence
Directed by	Denys Arcand
Produced by	Jean Dansereau Roger Frappier
Starring	Jean-Pierre Ronfard Raymond Barre Pierre Brodeur Monique Bégin
Cinematography	Alain Dostie
Edited by	Pierre Bernier
Release date	7 February 1982 (1982-02-07)
Running time	109 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French
Budget	$483,675

Production

The film had a budget of $483,675 (equivalent to $1,535,057 in 2023).^[1]

Works cited

• Evans, Gary (1991). In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0802027849.