Remembering Maria Chapdelaine
Feb 21 2015
•1h 53m
•Documentary
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?
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Jean-Claude Labrecque
Self
Julien Duvivier
Self (archive footage)
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