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“Montreal Tango” was made last year for a National Film Board workshop by Tarek al-Nosir and two of his Dawson College classmates, Hernan Wu and James Jacobo-Mandryk. It’s a portrait of immigrants in Montreal that draws its name and inspiration from a 1983 poem by G\u00e9rald Godin, “Tango de Montr\u00e9al.” <\/p>\n

The poem, which is an homage to Montreal’s immigrants, is displayed outside Mont-Royal metro<\/a> as part of an installation created by Les industries perdues<\/a> in 2000; the artists were inspired by Godin’s old habit of painting his poems on the side of his St. Louis Square home. <\/p>\n

Tango de Montr\u00e9al
\nG\u00e9rald Godin<\/b><\/p>\n

Sept heures et demie du matin m\u00e9tro de Montr\u00e9al
\nc’est plein d’immigrants
\n\u00e7a se l\u00e8ve de bonne heure
\nce monde-l\u00e0<\/p>\n

le vieux coeur de la ville
\nbattrait-il donc encore
\ngr\u00e2ce \u00e0 eux<\/p>\n

ce vieux coeur us\u00e9 de la ville
\navec ses spasmes
\nses embolies
\nses souffles au coeur
\net tous ses d\u00e9fauts<\/p>\n

et toutes les raisons du monde qu’il aurait
\nde s’arr\u00eater
\nde renoncer<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

Montreal Tango
\ntranslated by Matt McLauchlin<\/b><\/p>\n

7:30 AM in the Montreal metro
\nit’s full of immigrants
\nthey get up early
\nthose people<\/p>\n

so if the old heart of the city
\nis still beating
\nis it thanks to them<\/p>\n

this old tired heart of the city
\nwith its spasms
\nits attacks
\nits murmurs
\nand all its faults<\/p>\n

and all the reasons in the world it could find
\nto stop
\nto give up<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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