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Remembering Maria Chapdelaine

Overview

This feature documentary by Jean-Claude Labrecque recounts the bold and astounding enterprise of French filmmaker Julien Duvivier, who shot a film adaptation of Louis Hémon’s classic novel Maria Chapdelaine in Péribonka, a village in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, in 1934. 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?

RATING

9.00

DIRECTOR

Jean-Claude Labrecque

COUNTRIE

Canada

RELEASE DATE

2015

TIME

0h 53m

GENRE

Documentary