LE PÈRE DE GRACILE
Sat Oct 24, 2009 at 2:01 PM
SPECIAL OFF SITE PRESENTATION
PLEASE NOTE! All films in the DOCUMENTARIES OF THE 21st CENTURY IN QUEBEC series will be screened at the Salle Martial-Caron at the College universitaire de Saint-Boniface, 200 De Cathedrale Ave.
* Admission is free and all are welcome
LE PERE DE GRACILE
Dir. Lucie Lambert | 2004 | 81 mins. | French with English subtitles
Le père de Gracile is described by Lucie Lambert as a documentary fable. This description is quite befitting, given the poetic and dreamlike tone that understates this story. Gracile, a ten-year old girl, goaded by a dream, leaves her mother to go searching for her father, who has disappeared and works as a woodcutter somewhere on the Québec Lower North Shore. She discovers on this long trek that the forest is devastated by heavy machinery, driven by men whose bad luck has forced them to lead this life away from their homes and families. Every one of them that she meets confides in her and, herein lies the touching aspect of this film, a natural symbiosis seems to establish itself between the hard-working man and the fragile little girl, as if each of them became her father for a moment.
