Movie

The Red Kitchen

★ 4.8(6)19801h 22m

The Red Kitchen is available to rent or buy on Apple TV Store in Canada. It isn't on a subscription streaming service there yet. Availability checked 19 June 2026.

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Director: Paule Baillargeon, Frédérique Collin
Release date: 1980-05-29
Runtime: 1h 22m
Language: French
Budget: $247,946
Status: Released
Country: Canada
Studio: Institut québécois du cinéma

About The Red Kitchen

The Red Kitchen is a 1980 movie in the Drama genre, directed by Paule Baillargeon and Frédérique Collin, starring Michèle Mercure, Han Masson and Catherine Brunelle. It has a runtime of 1 hour 22 minutes. It holds an average rating of 4.8/10 from 6 viewers. Below you can see where to watch The Red Kitchen in Canada — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

On a wedding day, women are confined to the kitchen to prepare the meal while the men wait to be served. While men talk politics and sports, women talk about their condition. A teenager observes the gap between the sexes. Co-directed by two actresses, Paule Baillargeon and Frederique Collin, The Red Kitchen is the birth of the Quebec women's cinema. The birth of the film was difficult, and funding has been largely achieved through donations from friends and a benefit concert. This war of the sexes takes place in a demanding formal research, based on the improvisation of the actors, whose preparation took place over long sessions in the workshop. The end result mixes black humour, horror and a very expressive fantasy that gave rise to heated debates.