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First Stripes reveals how training designed to equalize recruits ends up reproducing a conservative set of norms.
This is an excerpt from the ebook The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook, which also contains an in-depth interview with the film’s director, Jean-François Caissy, and the film’s editor, Mathieu Bouchard-Malo (who also edited Genèse and The Great Darkened Days).
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