Far from You Sweetheart

Far from You Sweetheart (French: Je suis loin de toi mignonne) is a 1976 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Claude Fournier.[1] The film stars Dominique Michel and Denise Filiatrault as Rita and Florence, two sisters who are working in a munitions factory during World War II, while still dreaming of finding husbands and getting married.[2]

The cast also includes René Caron, Carole Dagenais, Denis Drouin, Bernard Gosselin, Juliette Huot, Marc Legault, Marcel Pothier, Gilles Renaud, Jean-Pierre Masson and Gilbert Sicotte.

Maurice Élia of the film magazine Séquences compared the film negatively to the 1975 wartime drama Bound for Glory (Partis pour la gloire), calling it a vulgar farce that wasn't actually funny enough to call it a comedy.[3] Writing for Le Devoir, André Leroux opined that Fournier had no idea how to construct a screenplay, a compelling plot or believable characters.[4] Despite its negative critical reception, however, the film was moderately successful at the Quebec box office,[4] and Michel later named it as one of the films she was most proud of in her career, in part because she had been directly involved in writing it.[5]

It was included in a retrospective of Michel's career at the Cinémathèque québécoise in 2017.[2]