Format: NTSC

Release Date: 01-01-2005

Details: Amazon.ca In 1986, at the age of 56, filmmaker Claude Jutra chose to take his own life to escape Alzheimer's disease. The dual DVD Jutra, which brings together Paule Baillargeon's magnificent documentary, Portrait on film, the seminal film of 1971, Mon oncle Antoine, and a short film co-directed with animation filmmaker Norman McLaren, pays a particularly well-deserved tribute to the man whose contribution to Quebec cinema was immense. Paule Baillargeon chose the intimate investigative mode for the portrait of the man who made Take it all and Kamouraska. On a text by Jefferson Lewis, she recounts with great tenderness the journey of this passionate and rigorous creator, admired by Jean Renoir and John Cassavetes. Claude Jutra was indeed one, with his friend Michel Brault, of those who showed the way to modernity in Quebec cinema in the 1960s. Evoking the bourgeois childhood of the filmmaker who destined him for medicine, his close relationship with his mother, his meetings with Jean Rouch, François Truffaut or Bernardo Bertolucci, his rants against the reluctance of the Montreal artistic community, his departure for English Canada and his return to Montreal, where he will form a last family from the theater, this documentary immerses us in the life of an artist guided above all by an indestructible desire for integrity. Combining this Portrait on film with the works of Jutra himself, this very rich DVD, produced by the National Film Board, opens the doors to the world of a filmmaker who is both free and tormented but, above all, fiercely devoted to the constitution of a Quebec cultural identity. --Helen Faradji

UPC: 698193008479

EAN: 0698193008479

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood