Quote:
"Beyond the playful tone and the dilettantism of the two female characters, La vie rêvée offers a powerful diatribe against a Québécois society that is full of its masculinity and where the other is constantly relegated to a deceptive space, a no-man's land."
-- Chantal Nadeau

Source:
"Barbaras en Québec: Variations on Identity." In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, edited by Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, and Janine Marchessault. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. (p. 202)