"Canadian sensibility" my ass.
Here's the first of two Canadian sexploitation films from the 70's that only seem to be available in XviD. I'll ugrade as soon as I find something better, but until then, this is definitely worth a watch.
From L. Denis Brown at IMDB:
With a population of under 10 million, many of whom are not native French speakers, it is a matter of pride to Quebec that it has built up and maintains a vigorous ongoing French speaking film industry. To do this costs must be cut to a minimum, films must have a wide enough general appeal to attract relatively large audiences when they are shown, and directors must always be aware that dubbed versions of their works may be needed to obtain them a limited circulation elsewhere in North America, or even just to sustain important VHS and DVD sales outside Quebec. These three constraints make the production of great works of art unlikely, and relatively few Quebec films have received wide international acclaim. Nevertheless they are generally competently made and acted works which are easy to watch and enjoy. They have also created a pool of competent and experienced actors who have a significant string of credits to their name and deserve to be better known outside Quebec. The two stars of this film Daniel Pilon and Celine Lomez provide good examples. Both can boast of a long list of major films in which they have participated, and as far as I know both remain professionally active today: but, as native French speakers who have filmed primarily in Quebec, neither has achieved the wide recognition they deserve in the English speaking film world (although Daniel Pilon has been more successful in this respect than Celine Lomez). It is very difficult to make a major mark as an actor in a film which most of its viewers will see only in a dubbed version.
Apres Ski is set in a Quebec ski lodge, probably in the Laurentian hills near Montreal, but the almost non-existent story is a pure farce which is liberally decorated with a number of attractive young girls displaying more than just their skills on skis. It is in many ways reminiscent of the crop of spring break films released in the U.S.A. Ski lodges provide many young people fortunate enough to live in nearby areas with physical challenges, skill building experiences and early opportunities to break away from home and start to find their own feet. In Europe and Canada, as well as some parts of the U.S.A., they provide a more sophisticated version of the simple "Spring Break" experience, and it is perhaps surprising that there have not been more films exploiting this. I never went on a spring break, but I had a number of happy stays in ski lodges when young, and now that I have had to give up skiing I found that my memories of these stays - even though I never had the (mis)fortune to go to one with the range of extra-curricular activities shown in this film - added to my enjoyment whilst watching it.
[...]I could fill this page with criticism of this film but see no point in doing so. I found its worst feature to be very juvenile comedy dialogue, but this may have been accentuated by bad dubbing and may have been much less evident in the original film. Just comparing the English title of the dubbed film (Snowballin') with the original title Apres Ski suggests that this is probably the case. Also, I have only seen a cable TV version of the film which appeared to have been considerably shortened from its listed length, and this may have given it greater appeal, but for me Apres Ski whilst not a great film was enjoyable to watch and it deserved a rating of six out of ten.
Technical Information:
Title: Après-ski/Winter Games/Sex in the Snow/Snowballin'
Year: 1971
Country: Canada
Director: Roger Cardinal
Source: DVD Retail
Video Codec: XviD
Container: .avi
Size: 699 MB
Length: 1:44:03
Programs used: Unknown
Resolution: 384x288
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Video: MPEG4 @ ~700 kb/s
Frame Rate: 23.97 fps
Audio 1: French- Dolby AC3 Stereo @ 192 kb/s
Audio 2: English- Dolby AC3 Stereo @ 192 kb/s
Subtitles: None
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