The Death of a Lumberjack | |
Native Name: | |
Director: | Gilles Carle |
Producer: | Pierre David Pierre Lamy |
Starring: | Carole Laure |
Cinematography: | René Verzier |
Editing: | Gilles Carle |
Runtime: | 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]
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.
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. It won Canadian Film Awards for Supporting Actor (Lamothe) and Musical Score.