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Les raquetteurs
Directed byMichel Brault
Gilles Groulx
Written byMichel Brault
Gilles Groulx
CinematographyMichel Brault
Gilles Groulx
Production
company		National Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • 1958 (1958)
Running time14 minutes 37 seconds
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Les raquetteurs is a 1958 Direct Cinema documentary film co-directed by Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx. The film explores life in rural Quebec, at a convention of snowshoers in Sherbrooke, Quebec in February 1958. The film is notable for helping to establish the then-nascent French language production unit at the National Film Board of Canada, and more importantly, the development of a uniquely Quebec style of direct cinema.

The film incorporates agile camera work and a largely synchronous soundtrack, uninterrupted by any narration, in keeping with the ethos of direct cinema to avoid any imposed "truth" on events onscreen.

Production

Grant McLean, then head of production for the NFB, had been angry that what was to have been a three-minute vignette had quadrupled in length and ordered the film to be used for stock footage. However, NFB producers Tom Daly and Guy Glover interceded on the young filmmakers' behalf.

Release

At the time of its release, Les raquetteurs raised some concerns about its "nonofficial" style, and ruffled some feathers in Quebec for its portrayal of rural Quebecers.

References

  1. "Les Raquetteurs". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Film Reference Library. Archived from the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2010.
  2. Marshall, Bill (2000-10-10). Quebec National Cinema. McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 22. ISBN 0-7735-2116-X. Les raquetteurs NFB.
  3. Evans, Gary (Sep 30, 1991). In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989. University of Toronto Press. pp. 73. ISBN 0-8020-6833-2. Les raquetteurs NFB.
  4. Ellis, Jack C.; Betsy A. McLane (2005). A new history of documentary film. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 211. ISBN 0-8264-1751-5.

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