
Music, Dialect, and Identity in the Province’s Film Soundscapes
If you’ve ever seen a Quebecois film with no subtitles, chances are you picked up more on tones than words. It’s not because joual—the local working-class dialect—is a variant of French. It’s a social code built from centuries of tension between cultural preservation and assimilation. In films such as “Bon Cop, Bad Cop” (2006) and…