Maria Chapdelaine (2021)

Directed by

Sébastien Pilote

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

2h 38m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in early 1900s rural Quebec must choose between three suitors. One is a wilderness adventurer, another a steady farmer, and the third offers a new life in America. Her decision will shape her future in a harsh and beautiful landscape.

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What happens

Maria Chapdelaine is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sébastien Pilote and scheduled for release on September 24, 2021. An adaptation of Louis Hémon's 1913 novel Maria Chapdelaine, the film stars Sara Montpetit as the titular Maria Chapdelaine, a young woman in rural Péribonka, Quebec, who is torn between three suitors: François Paradis (Émile Schneider), a coureur de bois; Eutrope Gagnon (Antoine Olivier Pilon), a local farmer; and Lorenzo Surprenant (Robert Naylor), a wealthy man who offers the promise of life in the United States. The cast also includes Sébastien Ricard and Hélène Florent as Maria's parents Samuel and Laura Chapdelaine, as well as Gilbert Sicotte, Gabriel Arcand, Danny Gilmore, Martin Dubreuil, Arno Lemay, Charlotte St-Martin, Thomas Haché, Henri Picard and Xavier Rivard-Désy. Production commenced in February 2020 in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region. It was shut down in March by the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada before resuming in August. The film was originally slated for theatrical release on December 18, 2020, in Canada, but the release was postponed to 2021. It premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, in advance of its commercial release on September 24. The Maria Chapdelaine story take place in North East of Lac Saint-Jean in towns of Péribonka and Ste-Monique-de-Honfleur (Just named Honfleur in the movie). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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