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On autoroute 15, just outside of Montreal stands a monument to the Quiet Revolution, the decaying screens of the Ciné Parc Laval, opened in 1971, the year the drive-in theatres made their mark in Québec history. In 1947, under the pressure on the Catholic church, drive-in theatres were banned in Québec. It was the church's attempt to regulate sex outside the domestic sphere. Originally a 2 theatre drive-in it soon became 4 screens due to its popularity. This film uses segments of David Cronenberg's Shivers (1975) in its dubbed Québécois version as a way to recall the lost traces of this informal history against the regulation of sex at the drive-ins of Québec in the 1970s.

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On autoroute 15, just outside of Montreal stands a monument to the Quiet Revolution, the decaying screens of the Ciné Parc Laval, opened in 1971, the year the drive-in theatres made their mark in Québec history. In 1947, under the pressure on the Catholic church, drive-in theatres were banned in Québec. It was the church's attempt to regulate sex outside the domestic sphere. Originally a 2 theatre drive-in it soon became 4 screens due to its popularity. This film uses segments of David Cronenberg's Shivers (1975) in its dubbed Québécois version as a way to recall the lost traces of this informal history against the regulation of sex at the drive-ins of Québec in the 1970s.

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