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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Paule Baillargeon
Script :
Jefferson Lewis
Photography :
Michael P. Savoie
Editor :
Dominique Sicotte
Cast :
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CLAUDE JUTRA, AN UNFINISHED STORY
On November 5, 1986, carrying nothing with him but a piece of paper with his name scribbled on it, Claude Jutra walked into the St. Lawrence and out of this world. Suffering from Alzheimer's and depressed by his inability to find financing for new projects, he ended his life like his character in � TOUT PRENDRE (1964), by drowning in the river. Now acclaimed as one of the great directors in Canadian film history, with MON ONCLE ANTOINE (1971) regularly voted the best Canadian/Quebec feature of all time, and his name gracing the statuette for the Quebec equivalent of the Oscar, who exactly was the man behind this artist genius? An answer to this question is supplied in CLAUDE JUTRA, AN UNFINISHED STORY, a documentary examination of the man and the artist, his work and his environment, from his happy childhood to his first experiences before and behind the camera, early successes here and in France, his great friendship with cinematographer Michel Brault, his bursting onto the scene in the '60s, the works of his artistic maturity in the '70s, his run-ins with the film bureaucracy, the consequences of his motocycle accident, his move into English-language production and then to Toronto, his return to Montreal to work in the theatre, and the final, desperate struggle with a debilitating illness. As well as a portrait of Jutra, the film paints a picture of his era, in particular the effervescent decades of the '60s and '70s, when film and politics and society were in constant flux.
Paule Baillargeon
Best known as an actress, Paule Baillargeon has starred in over two dozen films, innumerable plays, and has been prominent in some of the best known series of local Quebec television. In the late '60s she co-founded the Grand Cirque Ordinaire, and parallel to her career in the theatre, earned roles in films by Gilles Groulx, Denys Arcand, Anne Claire Poirier, L�a Pool, Claude Jutra and Jacques Leduc, among others. In 1977 she began her career behind the camera by directing Anastasie oh ma ch�rie. She has since directed Sonia (1986), Le Complexe d'�dith (1991), SOLO (1991) and THE SEX OF ANGELS, which opened the Montreal World Film Festival in 1993.
August 23, 2002 • 21:30:00 • IMP�RIAL • CI.23.6 •
August 26, 2002 • 20:30:00 • PARISIEN • P1.26.2 •
September 01, 2002 • 11:00:00 • PARISIEN • P1.01.2 •
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