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Sainte Barbe

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Little bald Léon loves his grandfather. He loves the old man's bushy black beard, which seems endowed with magic powers. It even turns caterpillars into butterflies. But Léon's grandmother wants to cut off the unkempt beard and regain the distinguished-looking man she married, who wore just a tidy moustache. When the old man's asleep, grandmother prowls, scissors in hand, but Léon's keeping a watchful eye on her. As long as grandpa lives, the beard will stay! But one day, grandpa doesn't wake up. Well, it's natural for grandfathers to die before their grandchildren. Léon is sad, especially as his grandmother is at last able to shave off that pesky beard. Goodbye hair! Adieu butterflies! Adieu lovely beard! Now the old man's face looks like a mown field. To soften his pain, Léon decides to bury the beard. He digs a hole in the middle of the forest and buries the precious secret. The rising sun next morning reveals that a beard forest has sprung up, thick and black like grandpa's. And from now on, Léon's round head sports a sort of thick black brush. A souvenir of the old days, when he played and laughed with his grandfather. A film without words.

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Agency - English program:.Animation Studio.
Agency:.Co-produced by Hélium Films, the National Film Board of Canada, Cinémagination and TSR: Télévision Suisse Romande - SRG SSR idée Suisse, with the participation of the Office Fédéral de la Culture - Section Cinéma, the Fondation Vaudoise pour le Cinéma, État du Valais - Commission Culturelle, the Commune de Chermignon and the Fonds RégioFilms.

Credit Note

Director, Cédric Louis, Claude Barras ; screenwriter, Cédric Louis ; producer, Claude Barras ; executive producer, David Verrall ; producer, Michael Fukushima, Benoit Dreyer ; director of photography, David Toutevoix ; animator, Françoise Grumeau, Elie Chapuis ; costume designer, Vanessa Riera Frangu ; editing, David Monti ; sound design, Pierre Yves Drapeau, Normand Roger ; original music, Pierre Yves Drapeau ; sound mix, Shelley Craig.

Time of Event Note

Recorded 2007.

Summary

Little bald Léon loves his grandfather. He loves the old man's bushy black beard, which seems endowed with magic powers. It even turns caterpillars into butterflies. But Léon's grandmother wants to cut off the unkempt beard and regain the distinguished-looking man she married, who wore just a tidy moustache. When the old man's asleep, grandmother prowls, scissors in hand, but Léon's keeping a watchful eye on her. As long as grandpa lives, the beard will stay! But one day, grandpa doesn't wake up. Well, it's natural for grandfathers to die before their grandchildren. Léon is sad, especially as his grandmother is at last able to shave off that pesky beard. Goodbye hair! Adieu butterflies! Adieu lovely beard! Now the old man's face looks like a mown field. To soften his pain, Léon decides to bury the beard. He digs a hole in the middle of the forest and buries the precious secret. The rising sun next morning reveals that a beard forest has sprung up, thick and black like grandpa's. And from now on, Léon's round head sports a sort of thick black brush. A souvenir of the old days, when he played and laughed with his grandfather. A film without words.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Awards Note

Audience Award, 2008

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