The Death of a Lumberjack

1973 film

The Death of a Lumberjack
Film poster

French	La Mort d'un bûcheron

Directed by	Gilles Carle
Written by	Gilles Carle Arthur Lamothe
Produced by	Pierre David Pierre Lamy
Starring	Carole Laure
Cinematography	René Verzier
Edited by	Gilles Carle
Release date	25 January 1973 (1973-01-25)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

The Death of a Lumberjack (French: La Mort d'un bûcheron) is a 1973 Canadian drama film directed and co-written by Gilles Carle. The film was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Plot

A young woman (Carole Laure) from rural Quebec comes to Montreal to find out the whereabouts of her father. She takes a job as a topless cowgirl singer in a nightclub owned by Armand (Willie Lamothe). Through her father's mistress, Blanche (Denise Filiatrault), she discovers he was working in a lumberjack camp and travels with Armand and Blanche to find him; however, it turns out he has been murdered by the camp's owners.

Reception

The Death of a Lumberjack is one of Carle's best-known films in Quebec, although it's virtually unknown in the rest of Canada.^[2]^[3] The film was seen by 188,372 people in France.^[4] It won Canadian Film Awards for Supporting Actor (Lamothe) and Musical Score.

Cast

Carole Laure - Marie Chapdeleine
Willie Lamothe - Armand St. Amour
Daniel Pilon - François Paradis
Pauline Julien - Charlotte Juillet
Marcel Sabourin - Ti-Noir L'Esperance
J. Léo Gagnon
Roger Lebel
Ernest Guimond
Jacques Gagnon
Gil Laroche
Jacques Bouchard
Yvonne Diabo
Eugene Lahache
Marcel Fournier
Denise Filiatrault - Blanche Bellefeuille

References

^ "Festival de Cannes: The Death of a Lumberjack". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
^ https://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://www.onf.ca/selection/gilles-carle/&prev=search Retrieved 14/15 Oct.
^ Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film, ed. Wyndham Wise, University of Toronto Press, 2001, pp. 36-37
^ Marshall 2001, p. 85.