Les raquetteurs

Description: This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema. In French with English subtitles. Directed by Michel Brault & Gilles Groulx - 1958

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9kD4N5FhAM

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