Miron - A Man Returned from Outside the World
This item is only available for Canadian orders.Catalogue Number: F3M018
Producer: LES FILMS DU 3 MARS
Producers: Couture, Isabelle
Directors: Beaulieu, Simon
Producing Agencies: Esperamos
Subject: Arts, Biography, Canadian History, Canadian Social Issues, Documentary, History, Literature, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Tech/Voc
Language: French
Grade Level: Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2014
Running Time: 75:20
A veritable aesthetic fresco combining portraiture, political documentary and experimental cinema, Miron: A Man Returned from Outside the World tells the collective adventure of the Quebec people through the work of their greatest poet, Gaston Miron. Consisting exclusively of archival documents, this cinematographic essay, constructed in the manner of a memory in fragments, is intended to be a reflection on the survival of threatened cultures on a global scale.
Film is in French with English subtitles.
Closing Film - The Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois 2014
Official Selection - Visions du réel 2014
Simon Beaulieu paints a beautiful and captivating artistic portrait of the champion of Quebec identity, through an impressionistic montage of cleverly manipulated film excerpts, from which emerges a fascinating but ultimately gloomy national history. - Mediafilm