Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail

Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail

1966•49m•6.5/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.5/10(4)

The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The film shows the currents that brought them together and the facets of their natures that first made them seem compatible but eventually drove them apart. Their story reflects, to a degree, the situation of anyone who has ever shared the life of another.

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Production

ONF | NFB

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Michèle Chicoine

Donna

Jackie Burroughs

Jackie Burroughs

Gail

John Sullivan

John Sullivan

Ray Bellew

Aino Pirskanen

Gino Marrocco

Evelyn Gordon

Derek May

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