Maple Syrup Pix, Vol. 1
TWO WOMEN IN GOLD (DEUX FEMMES EN OR) – Feeling neglected by their husbands, bored housewives Fernande (Naked Lunch’s Monique Mercure) and Violette (Panic’s Louise Turcot) embrace a new spirit of liberated promiscuity, delighting in casual sex with the men in their suburban neighbourhood. After establishing himself as a director of documentary shorts, Claude Fournier graduated to feature filmmaking with this explicit sex comedy written in collaboration with his wife Marie-José Raymond. More than simply confirming the commercial viability of the “Maple Syrup Porno” movement, Two Women in Gold went on the become one of the biggest hits in the history of Québec.
THE APPLE, THE STEM AND THE SEEDS! (LA POMME, LA QUEUE… ET LES PÉPINS!) – Riding high on the sexual vitality of their blossoming romance, Martial (Gina’s Donald Lautrec) and Louise (The Red Kitchen’s Han Masson) are thrown a curveball when Martial emerges from their wedding day with a crippling case of impotence. As Louise grows frustrated with her new state of celibacy, friends, family, and scientists join forces to help Martial recapture his virility. Four years after Two Women in Gold, Fournier and Raymond partnered with the “Maple Syrup Porno” pioneers at Cinépix to deliver an exercise in heightened bad taste and bawdy screwball absurdity that remains their most outrageous effort.
Special features
• Scanned and restored by Éléphant - mémoire du cinéma québécois
• New Two Women in Gold audio commentary featuring writer/film programmer Justine Peres Smith and film historian Alex Rose
• New The Apple, the Stem and the Seeds! audio commentary featuring writer/film critic Ralph Elawani and Rose
• Golden Years (2026, 20 min.) – New interview with co-writer Marie-José Raymond on Two Women in Gold
• Gold Sounds (2026, 5 min.) – Raymond on composer Robert Charlebois
• Coup de gueule (2026, 12 min.) – New interview with co-writer/producer Raymond on The Apple, the Stem and the Seeds!
• Maple Syrup Promo (1969-1975, 23 min.) – Theatrical trailers for Two Women in Gold, The Apple, the Stem and the Seeds!, and eight other “Maple Syrup Porno” films
• Maple Syrup Promo commentary featuring film programmer Marc Lamothe
• Alternate English language audio track for Two Women in Gold
• 40-page perfect bound book featuring a new essay by filmmaker/professor Éric Falardeau, a collection of “Maple Syrup Porno” posters, and new Motion Picture Purgatory comic strips on both films by Rick Trembles (Limited Edition exclusive)
• Double-sided poster
• Reversible cover artwork
• New art by Robert Sammelin
Canadian International Pictures
From arthouse to Canuxploitation, Canadian International Pictures (CIP) is devoted to resurrecting vital, distinctive, and overlooked triumphs of Canadian and Québécois cinema. We are focused on the country’s original cinematic boom years – spanning the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s – occasionally venturing past that period (and the country’s borders) to highlight the films of Canada’s most inspired actors and filmmakers.
