L'Acadie, l'Acadie (1971)

Original title

L'Acadie, l'Acadie?!?

Directed by

Pierre Perrault, Michel Brault

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 57m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows student protesters at the University of Moncton in 1968. The students demonstrate against a tuition increase and broader language and power inequalities between English and French speakers in New Brunswick.

observationalurgentpolitically chargedconfrontationalrawhistoricalcommunal

What happens

Acadia, Acadia?!? (French: L'Acadie, L'Acadie?!?) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault and released in 1971. The film documents the student protests that rocked the Université de Moncton in 1968, ostensibly over a proposed tuition hike but augmented by simmering linguistic and political tensions between anglophone and francophone residents of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, which would ultimately come to be recognized as an important watershed moment in the history of Acadian culture. The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight program at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis (1973)
• Ninth Floor (2015)
• 2012/Through the Heart
• The Night of Poetry (1971)
• 24 heures ou plus (1977)
• Persistent and Finagling (1971)
• The Invention of the Adolescent (1967)
• Columbia Revolt (1968)