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MacPherson - DVD
Description
In Quebec during the early 1930s, young poet Félix Leclerc befriended Frank
Randolph Macpherson, a Jamaican chemical engineer and university graduate who
worked for a pulp and paper company. An inveterate jazz fan, Macpherson
inspired Leclerc, who wrote a song about the log drives and entitled it
“MacPherson” in honour of his friend.
In the heart of a wintry nation, a white man and a black man bask in the
warmth of a friendship buoyed by melodies of jazz, traditional Quebec folk
tunes, Jamaican mento and a Schubert sonata. The magical hands of Martine
Chartrand, director of Black Soul, have created an animated film that
bursts with a pulsating hybrid of poetry and music, employing painted glass
frames shot with a 35mm camera. Somewhere between documentary and fiction, MacPherson,
based on Leclerc’s famous song, depicts turning points in history and, with
great sensitivity and lavish imagery, evokes the deep feelings shared by the
Jamaican engineer and one of Leclerc’s sisters.
A film brimming with exuberant, colourful images.
2012, 10 min 52 s
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