Les raquetteurs (1958)

Directed by

Gilles Groulx, Michel Brault

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

15 min

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows a gathering of snowshoe enthusiasts in a small Quebec town in 1958. It shows people marching, dancing, and socializing without any voiceover or staged action.

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What happens

The Snowshoers (French: 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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