The Death of a Lumberjack

The Death of a Lumberjack
Film poster
FrenchLa Mort d'un bûcheron
Directed byGilles Carle
Written byGilles Carle
Arthur Lamothe
Produced byPierre David
Pierre Lamy
StarringCarole Laure
CinematographyRené Verzier
Edited byGilles Carle
Release date
  • 25 January 1973 (1973-01-25)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The Death of a Lumberjack (French: La Mort d'un bûcheron) is a 1973 Canadian drama film directed and co-written by Gilles Carle. The film was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Plot

A young woman (Carole Laure) from rural Quebec comes to Montreal to find out the whereabouts of her father. She takes a job as a topless cowgirl singer in a nightclub owned by Armand (Willie Lamothe). Through her father's mistress, Blanche (Denise Filiatrault), she discovers he was working in a lumberjack camp and travels with Armand and Blanche to find him; however, it turns out he has been murdered by the camp's owners.

Reception

The Death of a Lumberjack is one of Carle's best-known films in Quebec, although it's virtually unknown in the rest of Canada.[2][3] The film was seen by 188,372 people in France.[4] It won Canadian Film Awards for Supporting Actor (Lamothe) and Musical Score.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Death of a Lumberjack". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
  2. ^ https://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://www.onf.ca/selection/gilles-carle/&prev=search Retrieved 14/15 Oct.
  3. ^ Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film, ed. Wyndham Wise, University of Toronto Press, 2001, pp. 36-37
  4. ^ Marshall 2001, p. 85.

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