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Remembering Maria Chapdelaine
2015
52 min
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This feature documentary by Jean-Claude Labrecque recounts the bold and astounding enterprise of French filmmaker Julien Duvivier, who shot a film adaptation of Louis Hémon’s classic novel Maria Chapdelaine in Péribonka, a village in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, in 1934. What was the impact of the original film’s production on the life of the community? What memories remain? What town secrets lie hidden in those memories? Tracking our identity and our relationship with the past, Labrecque and his team delve into the boundaries between the fantasy world of film and reality. Drawing on clips from Duvivier’s film, material from archives in …
This feature documentary by Jean-Claude Labrecque recounts the bold and astounding enterprise of French filmmaker Julien Duvivier, who shot a film adaptation of Louis Hémon’s classic novel Maria Chapdelaine in Péribonka, a village in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, in 1934. What was the impact of the original film’s production on the life of the community? What memories remain? What town secrets lie hidden in those memories?
Tracking our identity and our relationship with the past, Labrecque and his team delve into the boundaries between the fantasy world of film and reality. Drawing on clips from Duvivier’s film, material from archives in France and Quebec, and original footage shot by Labrecque and his team in Péribonka in 2013, the documentary Remembering Maria Chapdelaine is an inquiry into the boundaries between the fantasy world of film and reality.
Tracking our identity and our relationship with the past, Labrecque and his team delve into the boundaries between the fantasy world of film and reality. Drawing on clips from Duvivier’s film, material from archives in France and Quebec, and original footage shot by Labrecque and his team in Péribonka in 2013, the documentary Remembering Maria Chapdelaine is an inquiry into the boundaries between the fantasy world of film and reality.
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original ideaJean-Claude Labrecque
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directorJean-Claude Labrecque
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producerColette Loumède
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director of photographySteve Asselin
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second cameraNicolas Lévesque
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sound editingCatherine Van Der Donckt
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editingMichel Giroux
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researchNancy Marcotte
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rights clearancesNancy Marcotte
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interviewsLuc BourdonNicolas Lévesque
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production managerCatherine Chagnon
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1st assistant cameraKen Allaire
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location soundKen AllaireCarol BouchardDaniel CharleboisCatherine Van Der Donckt
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gripPierre-Yves Larouche
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technical coordinator - shooting equipmentSteve Hallé
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technical support - editingPierre DupontIsabelle PainchaudPatrick Trahan
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assistant editorMyriam Léger-Bélanger
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restoration of archival filmFrançois Auger
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HD film transferAldo La RiccaRichard Lanoue
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image restorationSylvie Marie FortierDenis Bergeron
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translationVision Globale
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titlesGaspard GaudreauCynthia Ouellet
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online editingDenis Gathelier
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foleyLise Wedlock
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re-recordingJean Paul Vialard
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media relationsNadine Viau
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marketing managerFrançois Jacques
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marketing manager - assistanceCatherine BenoîtTheodora Kolovos
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administratorSia Koukoulas
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production coordinatorHélène Regimbal
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administrative assistantPerrine BralLarissa Christoforo
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technical coordinatorRichard ClicheMira MailhotDaniel Lord
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associate producerMélanie Lasnier
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executive producerColette Loumède
Ages 13 to 18
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