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 double DVD Jutra, which brings together Paule Baillargeon’s magnificent documentary, Portrait sur film, the landmark 1971 film, Mon oncle Antoine, and a short film co-directed with animation filmmaker Norman McLaren, pays a particularly well-deserved tribute to a man whose contribution to Quebec cinema was immense. Paule Baillargeon chose an intimate investigative style for this portrait of the director of À tout prendre and Kamouraska. Based on a text by Jefferson Lewis, she recounts with great tenderness the path of this passionate and rigorous creator, who was admired by Jean Renoir and John Cassavetes. Along with his friend Michel Brault, Claude Jutra was indeed one of those who paved the way for modernity in Quebec cinema in the 1960s. Evoking the filmmaker’s bourgeois childhood, which was intended to lead him to medicine, his intense relationship with his mother, his encounters with Jean Rouch, François Truffaut, or Bernardo Bertolucci, his outbursts against the timidity of the Montreal artistic community, his departure for English Canada and his return to Montreal, where he would form a final family from the world of theater, this documentary immerses us in the life of an artist guided above all by a desire for indestructible integrity. Pairing this Portrait sur 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 was at once free and tormented but, above all, fiercely dedicated to establishing a Quebec cultural identity. --Helen Faradji

UPC: 698193008479

EAN: 0698193008479

Languages: French

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood