The River Schooners

The River Schooners
French	Les Voitures d'eau
Directed by	Pierre Perrault
Produced by	Jacques Bobet Guy L. Coté
Starring	Alexis Tremblay Marie Tremblay
Cinematography	Bernard Gosselin
Edited by	Monique Fortier
Production company	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	1968 (1968)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

The River Schooners (French: Les Voitures d'eau) is a 1968 Canadian documentary, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and directed by Pierre Perrault.[1] The third and final film in his "Île-aux-Coudres Trilogy" after Pour la suite du monde and The Times That Are (Le règne du jour),[2] the film portrays workers in L'Isle-aux-Coudres, Quebec, who are employed in the traditional but fading art of building wooden schooners.[1]

The film was released theatrically in 1968.[3] In 1972, it was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, as part of the New Cinema from Quebec program of 11 theatrical films from the province made between 1968 and 1971.[4]

It was later screened at the 1984 Festival of Festivals as part of Front & Centre, a special retrospective program of artistically and culturally significant films in the history of Canadian cinema.[5]

The three films in the trilogy were released as a DVD box set in 2007.[6]

References

1. David Clandfield, Pierre Perrault and the Poetic Documentary. Indiana University Press, 2004. ISBN 9780968913239.
2. ""La Trilogie de l'Ile-aux-Coudres" : Pierre Perrault, la révolution documentaire". Le Monde, July 5, 2007.
3. Yves Laberge, "Le cinéma de Pierre Perreault : une réappropriation symboliqued’un fleuve". Cap-aux-Diamants, No. 74 (2003). pp. 48–51.
4. "New Cinema from Quebec". Cinema Canada, March 1972. p. 12.
5. Carole Corbeil, "The stars are coming out for Toronto's film festival". The Globe and Mail, September 6, 1984.
6. Odile Tremblay, "La Trilogie de l'Île-aux-Coudres en DVD". Le Devoir, April 24, 2007.

External links

• The River Schooners at IMDb