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La bête lumineuse

1982 2 h 7 min
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Documentaire sur la traditionnelle chasse à l'orignal, prétexte à fouiller l'âme québécoise. Dans une cabane de Maniwaki, des citadins opèrent leur annuel retour à la nature. Plaisir de se mesurer aux éléments, et de connaître ses limites! Expérience de la mort pour exorciser sa propre mort et renouer avec la chaîne entière de la vie! Mais aussi, esprit de panache, de bravache et de vantardise, et transposition de moeurs sauvages de la meute au sein du groupe d'amis, où on a tôt fait de repérer un souffre-douleur. Une magistrale partie de chasse, une mythologie bien de chez-nous.

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Documentaire sur la traditionnelle chasse à l'orignal, prétexte à fouiller l'âme québécoise. Dans une cabane de Maniwaki, des citadins opèrent leur annuel retour à la nature. Plaisir de se mesurer aux éléments, et de connaître ses limites! Expérience de la mort pour exorciser sa propre mort et renouer avec la chaîne entière de la vie! Mais aussi, esprit de panache, de bravache et de vantardise, et transposition de moeurs sauvages de la meute au sein du groupe d'amis, où on a tôt fait de repérer un souffre-douleur. Une magistrale partie de chasse, une mythologie bien de chez-nous.

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  • participation
    Louis-Philippe Lécuyer
    Stéphane-Albert Boulais
    Maurice Chaillot
    Bernard L'Heureux
    Michel Guyot
    Barney Descontie
    Maurice Aumont
    Claude Lauriault
    Laurier Prévost
  • director
    Pierre Perrault
  • camera
    Martin Leclerc
  • editing
    Suzanne Allard
  • research
    Yvan Dubuc
  • assistant to the director
    Yvan Dubuc
  • location sound
    Yves Gendron
  • None
    Philippe Martel
  • lighting
    Roger Martin
  • editing assistant
    Michelle Guérin
    Louis Blair
  • sound editing
    Gilles Quintal
  • sound mixer
    Jean-Pierre Joutel
  • administration
    Monique Létourneau
  • producer
    Jacques Bobet

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Ages 14 to 17
School subjects
Health/Personal Development - Bullying & Discrimination Health/Personal Development - Healthy Relationships Media Education - Documentary Film Science - Life Systems/Ecology Social Studies - Communities in Canada/World
This is an intense film that your students will never forget. Show Chapter 8, in which the new hunters wait for the moose. How does the editing contribute to the film? How did the director manage to show people naturally? Does the fact that the moose is absent mean the film is a failure? Some clips can also serve to illustrate the hunt as a microcosm of society, through its rituals and the relationships that emerge among the participants when thrown together temporarily.
La bête lumineuse
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