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La beauté du geste

La beauté du geste
2004 -- 97 min. - documentaire - vidéo numérique
French

A look behind the scenes of the Cinémathèque québécoise,
the year of it's 40th anniversary. A reflexion on the history, the present stakes and the future of this jewel of Montreal's cultural life.

ONLY AVAILABLE IN FRENCH


presentation

Between the warehouses in Boucherville and the projection booth, between the curators and the spectators of the Claude-Jutra theatre, between the archives and the exhibition rooms, this film proposes a number of circuits that take stock of the perpetual dialogue between films and audiences.

press

Montréal: La Beauté du geste
Journal of FIlm Preservation no 67, (FIAF)
Eric Le Roy, 2004

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credits

As I finish this film, the employees of the Cinémathèque are experiencing some difficult moments: lay-offs, cutbacks, and temporary withdrawal from public activities. These are the people who quietly – with their loving, calm gestures – go about making the essential dialogue between films and audiences possible, day in and day out. They are the soul of the Cinémathèque, that site of culture and memory in a country where we forget so easily.
This film is dedicated to them, with wholehearted gratitude


featuring

François Auger
Olivier Boucher
Stéphanie Côté
Robert Daudelin
Serge Desaulniers
Guy Fournier
Pierre Jutras
Nicole Laurin
Christophe Paradis
Gabriel Thibaudeau
Pierre Véronneau
de la Cinémathèque québécoise

and

Michel Brault
Freddy Buache
Jean Chabot
Sylvia Ipirautaq Cloutier
Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Sylvain L’Espérance
André Pâquet
Nicolas Philibert
June Shappa

and

René Beauclair
Robert Beaudoin
Robert Boivin
Vincent Champagne
Marco de Blois
Julie Dubuc
Dominique Dugas
Diane Gladu
Johanne Marcotte
Élia Martineau
Carole Line Robert
Manon Viens

with the kids from
Marguerite-Bourgoys day care
and day camp of city of Repentigny

and specially

Emmanuelle Duchesneau
who draw the eye


with the voices of

Olivier Asselin
Lorne Brass
Martine Chartrand
Denis Chouinard
Bernard Émond
Hélène Falardeau
Jérémie Falardeau
Pierre Falardeau
Serge Giguère
Sylvie Groulx
Lucie Lambert
Micheline Lanctôt
Michel Langlois
Jacques Leduc
Julie Perron
Léa Pool

and also those of

Robert Favreau
André Forcier
Gérard Grugeau
Pierre Hébert
Michel Houle
Guy Joussemet
Don McWilliams
Anne Claire Poirier

with the Cinémathèque Choir
under the direction of Marie-Josèphe Lemay

images
Jacques Leduc
Jeanne Crépeau

images of the presentation
of Nanook of the North
Serge Giguère

sounds
Marie-France Delagrave
Richard Lavoie

sounds
of the presentation
of
Nanook of the North
Claude Beaugrand
Olivier Calvert
Esther Auger

shooting of the nitrate sequence
Guy-Jude Côté

additional sound recording
Frédérique Cloutier
Luc Léger

editing
Vincent Guignard
Jeanne Crépeau

sound editing
Claude Beaugrand
Francine Poirier
and also Martin Allard

assistant director
Catherine Goupil
and also Julie Perron

inline editing and timming
Denis Pilon

titres
Serge Gaspard Gaudreau

titles
Denis Gathelier

folley
Geneviève Lapointe

folley recording
Daniel Bisson

re-recording
Shleey Craig

coordonator for ACIC (NFB)
Marie-Christine Guité

producer for ACIC (NFB)
Monique Létourneau

logistic support at the Cinémathèque
François Auger
Robert Beaudoin
Nathalie Boivin
Stéphanie Côté
Nicole Laurin
Michel Louis-Charles
Johanne Marcotte

projet manager for the Cinémathèque
Dominique Dugas

with extracts from the following films :

On est au coton
Denys Arcand
1970

Inferno
Francesco Bertolini et Adolfo Padovan
1911
piano score
Gabriel Thibaudeau

El Hotel Eléctrico
Segundo de Chomon
1905

Cine Boom
Robert Russel et Claude Jutra
1964

L’Homme aux oiseaux
Bernard Devlin  et Jean Palardy
1952

The Searchers
John Ford
1956

L’Oeil au-dessus du puits
Johan van der Keuken
1988

A Chairy Tale
Claude Jutra et Norman McLaren
1957

Moi, un noir
Jean Rouch
1958

Pour la suite du monde
Michel Brault et Pierre Perrault
1963

Nanook of the North
Robert Flaherty
1921
music
piano
Gabriel Thibaudeau
voices
Sylvia Ipirautaq Cloutier
June Shappa

Le Singe bleu
Esther Valiquette
1992

Notre Dame des chevaux
Jean Chabot
1997


with sound extracts from the following films :


Jour après jour
Clément Perron
1962

Casablanca
Michael Curtiz
1942

Begone Dull Care
Norman McLaren et Evelyn Lambart
1949

Boudu sauvé des eaux
Jean Renoir
1932

Entre tu et vous
Gilles Groulx
1970

Entre la mer et l’eau douce
Michel Brault
1967

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
Jacques Demy
1964

Hiroshima mon amour
Alain Resnais
1959

Les Bons Débarras
Francis Mankiewicz
1980

Konitz, Portrait of the Artist as a Saxophonist
Robert Daudelin
1986


with the following books :

A true love for cinema : Jacques Ledoux, curator of the Royal Film Archive and Film Museum of Belgium, 1948-1988, Anne Head, Universitaire Pers Rotterdam, 1988

Lettre à Freddy Buache, Jean-Luc Godard, Éditions Demoures, 2001

Death of Cinema : History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age, Paolo Cherchi Usai, BFI Publishing, 2001

Venise, Art & Architecture, Marion Kaminski, Ed. Könemann, 1999

Musée National, Guide illustré du Musée d’Athènes, Semni Karouzou, Ekdotike Athenon s.a., 1989

Histoire de l’Art, architecture, sculpture, peinture, Jacques Thuillier, Flammarion, 2002

Les cinémathèques, Raymond Borde, Éditons L’Âge d’Homme, 1983

avec la traduction des citations de « La Divine Comédie, l’enfer » de Dante
de Jacqueline Risset, Flammarion, 1985


and the flip books :

Hen Hop, Norman McLaren
The Magician’s Hat, Patrick Jenkins
Gothic Scream, Fliptomania
Gamineries, Emile Cohl
Icare, Julie Perron
Empire State Building, Optical toys
Felix, Otto Messmer
Cat galloping, Daisy galloping
et Miner, using a pick d’Eadweard Muybridge

with the photographs:

from the exhibit « Espaces d’un moment » by Jacques Leduc,
from George Eastman House, Motion Picture Stills Collection
(James Card, George Pratt et Louise Brooks),
and from archives of the Cinémathèque québécoise

this film was produced with the financial support of the Media Arts Commission Film Program of the Canada Arts Council.


great thanks to the producers, distributors, filmmakers and musicians who gave autorisation to use their films and archives: Denys Arcand, Louis Bélanger, Michel Brault, Cinéma Libre, Claude Gauthier, Jacques Godbout, Sylvie Groulx, Michel La Veaux, Robert Marcel Lepage, Michael Snow, Jean-Marie Straub, Alain Tanner, Laurence Braunberger of Films du jeudi, Tony Di Paolo of Criterion,  Anita Benoliel of Ciné-Tamaris and the National FIlm Board of Canada.

also thanks to
Claire Valade and Marie-Christine Picard of Festival international Nouveau cinéma Nouveaux médias de Montréal (FCMM), to Catalina Bricenio of Fondation Daniel Langlois,to André Dudemaine of Présence autochtone,

thanks
to Véronique Dubois for her hospitality,
to Films du tricycle
(Sylvain L’Espérance et Lucie Lambert),
to Productions du Rapide Blanc,
to Mathieu Denis of Films de l’autre for his patience, entousiam and skills,
to Sylvain Robert for his wise advices,
to Danielle Raymond for a good help,
to Paolo Cherchi Usai of George Eastman House for his enlightening comments
and to Anthony L’Abbate for his friendly efficiency

many thanks tp
Jean-Claude Coulbois, Bernard Émond, René Roberge and Sylvain L'Espérance for their generous comments, friendly but sharp and to  David Lavoie of Vision Globale who deliver an important cassette to me, at my place, on a stormy night...

thanks to all those who been so kind to my camera

thanks to Dominique Dugas for this project
thanks to Catherine for so many things
and thanks to Robert Daudelin for everything.

Jeanne Crépeau
box film
2004

June Shappa and Sylvia Ipirautaq Cloutier sing during the screening of
Nanook of the North

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Robert Daudelin in his office


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Stéphanie Côté checks up a nitrate film



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Michel Brault and the Bolex


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Nicolas Philibert tells a story about a film


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Francine Poirier and Jean Chabot after a screening


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Freddy Buache in Lausanne


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Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne each side of Pierre Jutras









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