| Wow | |
| Director: | Claude Jutra |
| Producer: | Robert Forget |
| Starring: | Danielle Bail Pierre Charpentier Philippe Dubé Dave Gold Marc Harvey François Jasmin Michèle Mercure Philippe Raoul Monique Simard |
| Music: | Pierre F. Brault Jim Solkin |
| Cinematography: | Gilles Gascon André-Luc Dupont |
| Editing: | Claire Boyer Yves Dion Claude Jutra |
| Distributor: | National Film Board of Canada |
| Runtime: | 94 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | French |
| Budget: | $171,886 |
Wow is a 1969 Québécois film directed by Claude Jutra, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
Claude Jutra's first feature-length film is an improvised docudrama about the lives and dreams of nine Montreal young people. The film is made up of nine separate episodes, each one expressing a particular fantasy of one member of the group. This exuberant, low-budget effort, shot in the style of the French New Wave films, provides hints of Jutra's immense talents as a director.[1]
Subjects in the film included some participants Jutra had worked with in his 1966 mockumentary film The Devil's Toy (Rouli-roulant), a faux-anti-skateboarding propaganda film.[2]
Thirty years after the production of Wow, the NFB co-produced a sequel Wow 2, using the same concept of adolescents acting out their dreams. http://www.telefilm.gc.ca/data/production/prod_791.asp?lang=en&cat=tv&g=doc&y=2002 This film was directed by Jean-Philippe Duval and co-produced by, who was a participant in the original film.