‘Mary Chapdelaine’
Address Sebastian Pilot
interpreters Sara Montpetit, Sébastien Ricard, Hélène Florent, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Émile Schneider, Robert Naylor
Year 2021
premiere August 5, 2022
★★★
The latest adaptation of one of the canonical novels of the Canadian letters, Maria Chapdelaine by Louis HemonIt looks like something from another era. Calm (perhaps too much), quiet, and in it the environment and impulses take on fundamental importance. Hero Maria ( environmental activist Sara Montpetit), lives with his family in (very large) northern Canada in a beautiful as well as isolated place from civilization. They were practically the only ones who dared to live as settlers in these wild lands. His life is subject to the cycles of nature.to the brutal winter that separated it from the mad crowd, and to a very short summer with hardly any time to do anything. The only quirk is picking the right suitor. But what is interesting here is that his fate is closely connected with the landscape, seasonal changes, blizzards and the flowering of blackberries.
Indeed, we said ‘Maria Chapdelaine’ seems like a movie from another era, because what matters more than the story here are the standalone moments, the appearances, the group fireworks scenes, and most of all, the dedication. To seize the effort of working in those hostile lands. The director enjoys composing a film thoughtful Its rhetoric, civilization, or roots seem to reappear in the face of climate collapse. Your sensitivity is appreciated. when it comes to showing the environment, its simplicity and sophistication.