Une histoire inventée
Overview
 
Une histoire inventée is a 1990 Canadian drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

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Toni (Niardi) is the director of a staged rendition of Othello
Othello
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...

in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

. It is a pet project of his, financed by his mafia
Mafia
The Mafia is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering...

 uncle. Unbeknownst to him, the audiences are also rounded up and paid by the same uncle. Some of them have seen every performance of this tragic play, and are understandably bored, so when the backstage romantic events of the actors result in absurd situations onstage, the audience is delighted.
Quotations

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

The Times, London (1986-02-01)

No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.

Newsnight Review (2009-07-24) :Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-52762-8

If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.

The Wicked Womb (p. 57)

Nobody wants a girl whose beauty is imperceptible to all but him...

The Stereotype (p. 67)

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Womanpower (p. 128)

 
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