Citation :
« 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 » , dans Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, sous la direction de Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow et Janine Marchessault, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1999. [en anglais] (p. 202)