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Remembering Maria Chapdelaine

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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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Agency - French program:.Québec Studio.

Credit Note

Director, Jean-Claude Labrecque ; producer, Colette Loumède ; director of photography, Steve Asselin ; sound editing, Catherine Van Der Donckt ; editing, Michel Giroux ; research, Nancy Marcotte ; location sound, Ken Allaire, Carol Bouchard, Daniel Charlebois, Catherine Van Der Donckt ; foley, Lise Wedlock ; re-recording, Jean Paul Vialard ; executive producer, Colette Loumède.

Time of Event Note

Recorded 2015.

Summary

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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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).