Pour la suite du monde (1963)

Directed by

Marcel Carrière, Pierre Perrault, Michel Brault

Genre

documentary film, docufiction

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary shows people on an island in Quebec carrying out traditional whaling practices that had been abandoned for decades. The film follows their preparation and work, capturing their connection to the past and the river around them.

observationalcontemplativeculturalnostalgicslow-pacedearthyevocativeintimate

What happens

Pour la suite du monde (French pronunciation: [puʁ la sɥit dy mɔ̃d], transl. "So That the World May Go On", also known as Of Whales, the Moon, and Men; For Those Who Will Follow, and The Moontrap in English) is a 1963 Canadian documentary film produced by the National Film Board of Canada and directed by Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière and Pierre Perrault. It is the first of Perrault's Isle-aux-Coudres Trilogy, followed by The Times That Are (Le règne du jour) in 1967, and The River Schooners (Les voitures d'eau) in 1968. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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