Underplayed Gems

The Times That Are (1967)

The Times That Are poster
Original title
Le règne du jour
Directed by
Pierre Perrault
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 57m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A documentary filmmaker follows a Canadian family as they travel to France to see the places their ancestors came from. The film watches them meet distant relatives and explore old family stories in Normandy and Brittany.

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What happens

The Times That Are (French: Le règne du jour) is a 1967 Canadian documentary film, which was produced by the National Film Board of Canada and directed by Pierre Perrault. A sequel to his 1963 film Pour la suite du monde, the film follows Alexis Tremblay and his family on a trip to France to visit their ancestral roots in Normandy and Brittany. The film was a Canadian Film Award finalist for Best Feature Film at the 20th Canadian Film Awards in 1968, but did not win, although Bernard Gosselin won the award for Best Black and White Cinematography and Serge Beauchemin and Alain Dostie won the Genie for Best Sound. The Times That Are was followed in 1968 by The River Schooners (Les voitures d'eau), the final film of Perrault's Île-aux-Coudres Trilogy. It was later screened at the 1984 Festival of Festivals as part of Front & Centre, a special retrospective program of artistically and culturally significant films in the history of Canadian cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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