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Pour la suite du monde (also known as For Those Who Will Follow; Of Whales, the Moon, and Men, or The Moontrap in English) is a 1963 Canadian documentary film directed by Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière and Pierre Perrault. It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Pour la suite du monde
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Directed by	Michel Brault Marcel Carrière Pierre Perrault
Written by	Michel Brault Pierre Perrault
Produced by	Fernand Dansereau
Narrated by	Stanley Jackson
Cinematography	Michel Brault Bernard Gosselin
Edited by	Werner Nold
Distributed by	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	August 4, 1963 (1963-08-04)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

Synopsis

The film is a work of ethnofiction. It shows life in a small isolated community, when the influence of the Catholic Church in Quebec was still strong.

For centuries the inhabitants of Ile-aux-Coudres, a small island in the St. Lawrence River, trapped beluga whales by sinking a weir of saplings into the offshore mud at low tide. After 1920, the practice was abandoned. In 1962, a team of National Film Board of Canada filmmakers led by director Perrault and cinematographer Brault arrived on the island to make a cinéma-vérité documentary about the people and their isolated life. They encouraged the islanders to revive the practice of beluga fishing. The live animal they caught was then driven on a truck to an aquarium in New York City.

The film also shows the daily life of the islanders, and their celebrations, such as the festival at mid-Lent (mi-carême).

Reception

The resulting film was hugely popular in Quebec, and today is recognized as a classic of Canadian cinema. Pour la suite du monde has been consistently ranked by critics as one of the best ever made and it represents a major development in the Direct Cinema movement, moving away from simple observation to a more immediate participation and a great emphasis on the words of the people portrayed.[2] It received a Special Award and was named Film of the Year at the 1964 Canadian Film Awards.[3] In 1984 the Toronto International Film Festival ranked the film eighth in the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time.[4]

The film features local residents Léopold Tremblay, Alexis Tremblay, Abel Harvey, Louis Harvey and Joachim Harvey, along with a narrator.

The film was followed by two more installments in Perrault's "Île-aux-Coudres Trilogy", The Times That Are (Le règne du jour) and The River Schooners (Les voitures d'eau).[5]

Quebecois filmmaker Denis Villeneuve declares that Perrault's "Île-aux-Coudres Trilogy" is "amongst the most beautiful films he has ever seen".[6] It remains a major source of inspiration and influence for him.

Cast

• Léopold Tremblay as Marchand and president of the new beluga fishing co.
• Alexis Tremblay as Cultivateur et politicien
• Abel Harvey as Capitaine et maître de pêche
• Louis Harvey as Cultivateur et chantre d'église
• Joachim Harvey as Capitaine du Nord de l'Île
• Stanley Jackson as Narrator

Alternate English versions and titles

The film has been screened in various versions and with no less than four English-language titles. At its 1963 Cannes premiere, it was billed as For Those Who Will Follow.[1] The NFB has also promoted the film in English as Of Whales, the Moon and Men [7] or The Moontrap,[8] depending upon whether it was the 105 minute or 84 minute version, respectively. The release of a 2007 "Île-aux-Coudres Trilogy" DVD trilogy also translates the film title as For the Ones to Come.[9]

The film is commonly referred to as simply Pour la suite du monde in both French and English.[2][10]

See also

• Docufiction
• List of docufiction films
• Man of Aran, a 1934 film centred around reviving a shark fishing tradition

References

External links

• Pour la suite du monde at IMDb
• Watch Pour la suite du monde at NFB.ca

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