Remembering Maria Chapdelaine 2015
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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?
- Released: 2015-02-21
- Runtime: 53 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: Jean-Claude Labrecque, Julien Duvivier
- Director: Jean-Claude Labrecque, Steve Asselin, Michel Giroux, Colette Loumède
