A young woman living with her family on the frontier in Quebec, Canada, endures the hardships of isolation and climate, and chooses between three suitors: a trapper, a farmer, and an immigrant from Paris..
Is this for you? If you like movies that feel like a long, freezing walk through the woods where nobody says what they’re actually thinking, you’ll probably be into Maria Chapdelaine. It’s slow. It’s very, very white—as in, there is so much snow you might start feeling a chill in your living room. If you need a plot th...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Julien Duvivier
Charles Horan
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"Is this for you? If you like movies that feel like a long, freezing walk through the woods where nobody says what they’re actually thinking, you’ll probably be into Maria Chapdelaine. It’s slow. It’s very, very white—as in, there is so much snow you might start feeling a chill in your living room. If you need a plot that moves like a race car, stay away. This is for the people who want to watch a fire burn down to embers. The weight of the snow There’s this one shot of the family sitting around..."
Gabriel Boissy, Louis Hémon, Julien Duvivier
France
