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Remembering Maria Chapdelaine
201552 min 30 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Jean-Claude Labrecque
Production: Colette Loumède
In 1934, French filmmaker Julien Duvivier arrived in the village of Péribonka, in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, to shoot a film adaptation of Louis Hémon’s classic novel Maria Chapdelaine.
Some 80 years later, Jean-Claude Labrecque sets out to retrace this bold, astounding enterprise. 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? Which stories have persisted through generations? What can this adventure teach us about ourselves, our identity and our relationship with the past?
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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Subject categories
- Film and Video Arts > Film and Video Making
- English Language Arts > CanLit
- Media Education > Film and Video Production
- History and Citizenship Education > Modernization of Quebec Society (1929-1980)
Credits
- original idea
- Jean-Claude Labrecque
- director
- Jean-Claude Labrecque
- producer
- Colette Loumède
- director of photography
- Steve Asselin
- second camera
- Nicolas Lévesque
- sound editing
- Catherine Van Der Donckt
- editing
- Michel Giroux
- research
- Nancy Marcotte
- rights clearances
- Nancy Marcotte
- interviews
- Luc Bourdon
- Nicolas Lévesque
- production manager
- Catherine Chagnon
- 1st assistant camera
- Ken Allaire
- location sound
- Ken Allaire
- Carol Bouchard
- Daniel Charlebois
- Catherine Van Der Donckt
- grip
- Pierre-Yves Larouche
- technical coordinator - shooting equipment
- Steve Hallé
- technical support - editing
- Pierre Dupont
- Isabelle Painchaud
- Patrick Trahan
- assistant editor
- Myriam Léger-Bélanger
- restoration of archival film
- François Auger
- HD film transfer
- Aldo La Ricca
- Richard Lanoue
- image restoration
- Sylvie Marie Fortier
- Denis Bergeron
- translation
- Vision Globale
- titles
- Gaspard Gaudreau
- Cynthia Ouellet
- online editing
- Denis Gathelier
- foley
- Lise Wedlock
- re-recording
- Jean Paul Vialard
- media relations
- Nadine Viau
- marketing manager
- François Jacques
- marketing manager - assistance
- Catherine Benoît
- Theodora Kolovos
- administrator
- Sia Koukoulas
- production coordinator
- Hélène Regimbal
- administrative assistant
- Perrine Bral
- Larissa Christoforo
- technical coordinator
- Richard Cliche
- Mira Mailhot
- Daniel Lord
- associate producer
- Mélanie Lasnier
- executive producer
- Colette Loumède