The Death of a Lumberjack (French: La Mort d'un bûcheron) is a 1973 Canadian drama film directed and co-written by Gilles Carle. The film was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
| The Death of a Lumberjack | |
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 Film poster | |
| French | La Mort d'un bûcheron |
| Directed by | Gilles Carle |
| Written by | Gilles Carle Arthur Lamothe |
| Produced by | Pierre David Pierre Lamy |
| Starring | Carole Laure |
| Cinematography | René Verzier |
| Edited by | Gilles Carle |
Release date |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
Plot
editA young woman (Carole Laure) from rural Quebec comes to Montreal to find out the whereabouts of her father. She takes a job as a topless cowgirl singer in a nightclub owned by Armand (Willie Lamothe). Through her father's mistress, Blanche (Denise Filiatrault), she discovers he was working in a lumberjack camp and travels with Armand and Blanche to find him; however, it turns out he has been murdered by the camp's owners.
Reception
editThe Death of a Lumberjack is one of Carle's best-known films in Quebec, although it's virtually unknown in the rest of Canada.[2][3] The film was seen by 188,372 people in France.[4] It won Canadian Film Awards for Supporting Actor (Lamothe) and Musical Score.
Cast
edit- Carole Laure - Marie Chapdeleine
- Willie Lamothe - Armand St. Amour
- Daniel Pilon - François Paradis
- Pauline Julien - Charlotte Juillet
- Marcel Sabourin - Ti-Noir L'Esperance
- J. Léo Gagnon
- Roger Lebel
- Ernest Guimond
- Jacques Gagnon
- Gil Laroche
- Jacques Bouchard
- Yvonne Diabo
- Eugene Lahache
- Marcel Fournier
- Denise Filiatrault - Blanche Bellefeuille
References
edit- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Death of a Lumberjack". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
- ^ https://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://www.onf.ca/selection/gilles-carle/&prev=search Retrieved 14/15 Oct.
- ^ Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film, ed. Wyndham Wise, University of Toronto Press, 2001, pp. 36-37
- ^ Marshall 2001, p. 85.
Works cited
edit- Marshall, Bill (2001). Quebec National Cinema. McGill–Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-2103-8.
External links
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