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Marguerite Duparc
Marguerite Duparc
Born	March 13, 1933; France
Died	February 13, 1982 (aged 48); Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation(s)	Film producer, film editor
Years active	1965–1982
Spouse	Jean Pierre Lefebvre (1960s-1982, her death)

Marguerite Duparc (March 13, 1933 – February 13, 1982) was a Canadian film producer and editor, best known for her collaborations with her husband Jean Pierre Lefebvre.^[1]

Born in France, Duparc emigrated to Canada in 1955, and worked in film distribution until marrying Lefebvre in the early 1960s.^[1] She was the editor of virtually all of Lefebvre's films from The Revolutionary (Le révolutionnaire) in 1965 through to Wild Flowers (Les fleurs sauvages) in 1982; through her studio Cinak, she was also producer of many but not all of the same films, as well as on films by Denys Arcand, Jean Chabot, André Blanchard, Michel Audy and Raôul Duguay.^[1] Her relationship with Lefebvre partially inspired his 1968 film Patricia and Jean-Baptiste (Patricia et Jean-Baptiste).^[2]

She was a Canadian Film Award nominee at the 25th Canadian Film Awards in 1973, as producer of Arcand's Réjeanne Padovani.^[3]

She had begun work on Histoires pour Blaise, an animated children's film which would have been her directorial debut, in the early 1980s, but the film was not completed by the time of her death of cancer in early 1982. The film was completed by Yves Rivard, and released in 1983.^[1] Her illness and death formed the basis for Lefebvre's 1983 documentary film To the Rhythm of My Heart (Au rythme de mon cœur).^[4]

Filmography

Editor

The Revolutionary (Le révolutionnaire) – 1965
Don't Let It Kill You (Il ne faut pas mourir pour ça) – 1967
Patricia and Jean-Baptiste (Patricia et Jean-Baptiste) – 1968
My Friend Pierrette (Mon amie Pierrette) – 1969
Straight to the Heart (Jusqu'au coeur) – 1969
The House of Light (La chambre blanche) – 1969
Q-Bec My Love (Un succès commercial, ou Q-bec My Love) – 1970
Those Damned Savages (Les maudits sauvages) – 1971
My Eye (Mon œil) – 1971
My Childhood in Montreal (Mon enfance à Montréal) - 1971
Dirty Money (La maudite galette) - 1972
O or the Invisible Infant (Ô ou l'invisible enfant) - 1972
Body and Soul (Corps et âme) - 1972
Ultimatum – 1973
Réjeanne Padovani - 1973
The Last Betrothal (Les dernières fiançailles) – 1973
Pigs Are Seldom Clean (On n'engraisse pas les cochons à l'eau claire) – 1973
Alfred Pellan, peintre - 1974
Confidences of the Night (L'amour blessé) – 1975
The Yellow Island (L'Île jaune) - 1975
The Man from the Movies (Le gars des vues) – 1976
The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (Le vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort) – 1977
To Be Sixteen (Avoir 16 ans) – 1979
Wild Flowers (Les fleurs sauvages) – 1982

Producer

Don't Let It Kill You (Il ne faut pas mourir pour ça) – 1967
Q-Bec My Love (Un succès commercial, ou Q-bec My Love) – 1970
Dirty Money (La maudite galette) - 1972
Body and Soul (Corps et âme) - 1972
Réjeanne Padovani - 1973
The Last Betrothal (Les dernières fiançailles) – 1973
Pigs Are Seldom Clean (On n'engraisse pas les cochons à l'eau claire) – 1973
Ultimatum – 1973
Confidences of the Night (L'amour blessé) – 1975
The Yellow Island (L'Île jaune) - 1975
The Man from the Movies (Le gars des vues) – 1976
The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (Le vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort) – 1977
To Be Sixteen (Avoir 16 ans) – 1979
Blue Winter (L'Hiver bleu) - 1979
Wild Flowers (Les fleurs sauvages) – 1982

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Marguerite Duparc". Canadian Film Encyclopedia.
^ Jay Scott, "Conquering Cannes: Canada's best filmmaker has good reason to smile". The Globe and Mail, May 18, 1984.
^ Betty Lee, "Seagull irritating, Summer Wishes soars, Slipstream not the expected blockbuster". The Globe and Mail, November 10, 1973.
^ Jay Scott, "In 17 years of making films, Quebec's Jean Pierre Lefebvre has yet to see one of his movies open commercially in English Canada: Lefebvre's deceptive simplicity". The Globe and Mail, May 22, 1982.