Quebec cinema

At the beginning of the sixties, crews from the National Film Board went down to Isle-aux-Coudres to film fishermen reviving a porpoise hunt abandoned forty years before: direct cinema was born, with a light camera and synchronous sound, and Quebec heard itself speak on screen for the first time. Fiction followed: Jutra told of a teenager in a general store in Abitibi, Brault reconstructed the arrests of October 1970, Arcand had a group of ageing academics discuss their desires.

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• CinemaFor Those Who Will FollowPour la suite du mondePierre Perrault and Michel Brault · 1963Villagers of the Saint Lawrence take up again, for the camera, a hunt that their fathers had abandoned decades earlier.Cinema
• CinemaMy Uncle AntoineMon oncle AntoineClaude Jutra · 1971A teenager from a mining village spends a Christmas Eve with his uncle that initiates him into the adult world.Cinema
• CinemaThe True Nature of BernadetteLa Vraie Nature de BernadetteGilles Carle · 1972A woman leaves the city to live in the countryside according to her own ideas, and discovers that the countryside has its own.Cinema
• CinemaOrdersLes OrdresMichel Brault · 1974Five people arrested in their homes, without reason or trial, during the state of emergency of October 1970.Cinema
• CinemaThe Decline of the American EmpireLe Déclin de l'empire américainDenys Arcand · 1986Montreal academics talk about sex for a whole day, the men while cooking, the women at the gym.Cinema