Movies: Léopold Tremblay

  • 1963
    Of Whales, the Moon, and Men

    Of Whales, the Moon, and Men (1963)

    Of Whales, the Moon, and Men

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    At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924....

    Of Whales, the Moon, and Men
  • 1980
    The Skiff of Renald and Thomas

    The Skiff of Renald and Thomas (1980)

    The Skiff of Renald and Thomas

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    Five men work together in a communal effort to build a skiff on Ile-aux-Coudres, an island in the St. Lawrence River. It is built in a traditional fashion, all the more remarkable because no blueprint is used. The film does not merely record a buildi...

    The Skiff of Renald and Thomas
  • 1968
    Beluga Days

    Beluga Days (1968)

    Beluga Days

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    From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped at the island he named l'Île-aux-Coudres, Jacques Cartier saw how the Indians captured the little whi...

    Beluga Days
  • 1967
    The Times That Are

    The Times That Are (1967)

    The Times That Are

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    Four years after Pour la suite du monde (1963), director Pierre Perrault asks Alexis Tremblay if he'll agree to travel with his wife Marie to the country of their ancestors, France. In a montage parallel, we follow them in France and listen to them t...

    The Times That Are
  • 1968
    The River Schooners

    The River Schooners (1968)

    The River Schooners

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    The people of Ile-aux-Coudres talk of their fading tradition of constructing boats to ride the seas....

    The River Schooners