Yves Lever (1942 – July 7, 2020) was a Canadian film critic and historian from
Quebec.[1] He was historically most noted for his 2016 biography of film director
Claude Jutra, which addressed allegations that Jutra had sexually abused underage children.[2] The statement was controversial, but Lever's publisher stood behind him,[3] and Jutra's name was quickly removed from numerous cultural and geographic entities that had been named in his memory, including Quebec's
Jutra Awards and the national
Claude Jutra Award.[4]
Born and raised in
Marsoui, Quebec, Lever taught film studies at a variety of institutions throughout his career, including
Collège Ahuntsic, the
Université de Montréal and
Université Laval.[5] His other published books included Cinéma et société québécoise (1972), Histoire générale du cinéma au Québec (1988),[6]Les 100 films québécois qu’il faut voir (1995),[7]Dictionnaire de la censure au Québec : littérature et cinéma (2006)[8] and J.A DeSève, diffuseur d'images (2008).
^Warren, Paul (1996). "Les 100 films québécois qu'il faut voir by Yves Lever, and: Micheline Lanctôt, la vie d'une héroïne by Denis Pérusse, and: L'oumigmatique ou l'objectif documentaire by Pierre Perrault (review)". University of Toronto Quarterly. 66 (1): 174–178.
Project MUSE515741.
^Élie Castiel, "Review of Dictionnaire de la censure au Québec : littérature et cinéma Sous la direction de Pierre Hébert, Yves Lever et Kenneth Landry. Montréal : Fides, 2006, 717 pages"]. Séquences, Issue 247 (2007). p. 24.