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Candid Eyes: The Films of Michel Brault and Claude Jutra
Short Films

  • Les raquetteurs

    Directed by Gilles Groulx and Michel Brault.
    Canada, 1958, digital video, black & white, 15 min.
    French with English subtitles.
    Copy source: National Film Board of Canada

With great authenticity and spontaneity, Les raquetteurs records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s.

  • Wrestling (La Lutte)

    Directed by Michel Brault, Claude Jutra, Marcel Carriére and Claude Fournier.
    Canada, 1961, digital video, black & white, 28 min.
    French with English subtitles.
    Copy source: National Film Board of Canada.

Nothing escapes the probing camera in this candid eye view of professional wrestling at the Montréal Forum where some of the biggest bouts are staged, and in the back-street wrestling parlors where the warriors practice their art. 

  • The End of Summer (Le Temps Perdu)

    Directed by Michel Brault.
    Canada, 1964, 16mm, black & white, 27 min.
    French with English subtitles.

Filmed at a summer cottage outside Montréal, The End of Summer briefly penetrates the charmed world of the adolescent with the poignant awareness that nothing will ever be the same after these idle days at the lake. Film description courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada.

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