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The Lumberfros
Description
In
Abitibi, hundreds of kilometres from the city, thousands of workers go up
North, as did Jos Montferrand and François Paradis. Working as brush cutters,
these 21st-century lumberjacks discover Quebec’s
boreal forest.
Far
from their families, they spend five or six months a year in logging camps
that mirror a new Quebec.
Quebecers of French-Canadian descent and Neo-Quebecers from Africa, Eastern
Europe and Asia
work side by side. All have come to earn a living in the forest. Filmmaker
Stéphanie Lanthier invites us to spend an entire season inside this northern
micro society
Using
a direct cinema technique in the style of Pierre Perrault, she documents the
lives of the brush cutters, “exiled” men of all ages and nationalities who
share with her their nostalgia, pride and fascination with the forest
surrounding them — a habitat that from June to October is both threatening and
benevolent to those who dwell within it and dare to embark on the adventure.
2010, 71 min 15 s
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