Completed - FRENCH-CANADIAN - Drama, Historical, Book adaptation - 100 minutes
A teen in rural Quebec must decide her future by choosing one of three suitors, in Sébastien Pilote’s moving adaptation of Louis Hémon’s 1913 novel.
Year of production : 2020 Director(s) : Sébastien PILOTE, Robert NAYLOR Writer(s) : Sébastien PILOTE Cast : Sarah MONTPETIT, Hélène FLORENT, Sébastien RICARD, Antoine Olivier PILON, Émile SCHNEIDER, Robert NAYLOR, Martin DUBREUIL, Gilbert SICOTTE, Gabriel ARCAND Producer(s) : Pierre EVEN (Item 7), Sylvain PROULX (Multipix)
In 1910, Maria Chapdelaine, a girl of seventeen, lives with her family on the banks of the Péribonka River north of Lac Saint-Jean. The Chapdelaines work tirelessly to push back the limits of the forest. In a home where even physical exhaustion cannot diminish the warmth of family life, Maria, strong and full of hope, finds herself faced withmajor dilemmas. François Paradis, a former neighbour she has loved since childhood, who has become a freespirited fur trapper and a guide for strangers, promises to return in the spring to marry her. But when the spring is overdue, two suitors come forward. Lorenzo Surprenant, who works in the factories of Massachusetts, offers Maria a comfortable existence in an American city, and Eutrope Gagnon, their valiant neighbour, asks her to clear with him the land he has taken near the Chapdelaines'. Thrust into the adult world; Maria will suddenly be forced to decide of her future as a woman.
Country(ies) : CANADA Financing plan : Telefilm Canada, Sodec, MK2 Mile End, Canada and Quebec Tax credits Start of shooting : January 2020
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