Pour la suite du monde

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Synopsis

The film is a work of ethnofiction. It shows life in a small isolated community, when the influence of the Catholic Church in Quebec was still strong.

For centuries the inhabitants of Ile-aux-Coudres, a small island in the St. Lawrence River, trapped beluga whales by sinking a weir of saplings into the offshore mud at low tide. After 1920, the practice was abandoned. In 1962, a team of National Film Board of Canada filmmakers led by director Perrault and cinematographer Brault arrived on the island to make a cinéma-vérité documentary about the people and their isolated life. They encouraged the islanders to revive the practice of beluga fishing. The live animal they caught was then driven on a truck to an aquarium in New York City.

The film also shows the daily life of the islanders, and their celebrations, such as the festival at mid-Lent (mi-carême).

Cast

  • Léopold Tremblay as Marchand and president of the new beluga fishing co.
  • Alexis Tremblay as Cultivateur et politicien
  • Abel Harvey as Capitaine et maître de pêche
  • Louis Harvey as Cultivateur et chantre d'église
  • Joachim Harvey as Capitaine du Nord de l'Île
  • Stanley Jackson as Narrator

Production

The film was shot in L'Isle-aux-Coudres and New York between 1961 and 1962, on a budget of $80,000 (Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".).Template:Sfn

Alternate English versions and titles

The film has been screened in various versions and with no less than four English-language titles. At its 1963 Cannes premiere, it was billed as For Those Who Will Follow.[2] The NFB has also promoted the film in English as Of Whales, the Moon and Men [3] or The Moontrap,[4] depending upon whether it was the 105-minute or 84-minute version, respectively. The release of a 2007 "Île-aux-Coudres Trilogy" DVD trilogy also translates the film title as For the Ones to Come.[5]

The film is commonly referred to simply as Pour la suite du monde in both French and English.[6][7]

Reception

The film premiered at the Loew's International Film Festival on 4 August 1963.Template:Sfn It was hugely popular in Quebec, and today is recognized as a classic of Canadian cinema. Pour la suite du monde has been consistently ranked by critics as one of the best ever made and it represents a major development in the direct cinema movement, moving away from simple observation to a more immediate participation and a great emphasis on the words of the people portrayed.[6]

It was the first Canadian film to be shown at competition at the Cannes Film Festival.Template:Sfn It was also the first Quebec film shown at the festival.[2]Template:Sfn

Quebecois filmmaker Denis Villeneuve declares that Perrault's "Île-aux-Coudres Trilogy" is "amongst the most beautiful films he has ever seen".[8] It remains a major source of inspiration and influence for him.

Accolades

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Awards

See also

References

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Works cited

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External links

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