Cinema
For Those Who Will Follow
Pour la suite du monde
Synopsis
L'Isle-aux-Coudres, on the St Lawrence, in the early sixties. The elders remember the porpoise fishery, for the beluga, which was caught in a trap of young trees planted in the mud at low tide, while invoking the souls of the dead, and which has not been practised for decades. They are persuaded to start again. Léopold Tremblay takes the lead in the undertaking, with his father Alexis and Louis Harvey, and the islanders recover the gestures, the stories and the reckonings of the moon and tides.
Context
The film, produced by the federal film board, was shot in 1962 by Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault, with sound engineer Marcel Carrière, whom some sources count as a third author. It opens the trilogy that Perrault devoted to the island. The beluga, which the islanders call marsouin, is the small white cetacean of the river. The full English version is titled Of Whales, the Moon and Men, and an abridged version The Moontrap.
Who it is for
One hundred and five minutes, in the French of the islanders, recorded as it is spoken; a slow documentary, attentive to speech.
Prizes and reception
Presented in competition at Cannes, under the title For Those Who Will Follow: it was the first Canadian feature film to be so.
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