Pour la suite du monde
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| Directed by |
Michel Brault Marcel Carrière Pierre Perrault |
| Produced by | Fernand Dansereau |
| Written by | Michel Brault Pierre Perrault |
| Narrated by | Stanley Jackson |
| Cinematography | Michel Brault Bernard Gosselin |
| Edited by | Werner Nold |
| Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada |
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105 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
Pour la suite du monde is a 1963 Canadian documentary film directed by Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière and Pierre Perrault. It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.
A work of ethnofiction, 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 resulting film 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. It received a Special Award and was named Film of the Year at the 1964 Canadian Film Awards. In 1984 the Toronto International Film Festival ranked the film eighth in the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time.
The film features local residents Léopold Tremblay, Alexis Tremblay, Abel Harvey, Louis Harvey and Joachim Harvey.
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