Jean-Claude Labrecque Trailers
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Jean-Claude Labrecque, CM CQ (June 19, 1938 – May 31, 2019) was a director and cinematographer who learned the basics of filmmaking at the National Film Board of Canada.
Jean-Claude Labrecque was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and trained as a camera assistant at the NFB. As a cinematographer, he shot many of the early key films of Claude Jutra (À tout prendre), Michel Brault (Entre la mer et l’eau douce), Gilles Carle (La vie heureuse de Léopold Z), Gilles Groulx (Le Chat dans le sac) and Don Owen (Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail, The Ernie Game). He turned to directing in 1965 with 60 Cycles, about a long-distance bike race on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River, which has been described as a virtual encyclopedia of camera techniques. It won 22 international awards and was nominated for a BAFTA. He left the NFB in 1967 to set-up his own production company, although he continued to freelance with the Board.
Most Popular Jean-Claude Labrecque Trailers
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01 January 1966
The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness.
18 March 1984
Continuing a saga that began with his previous, 1978 film, Vautours director Jean-Claude Labrecque returns with the French Canadian, Louis Pelletier and puts him in the context of the growing separatist movement in the late 1960s in Quebec.
01 January 1964
This short 1964 documentary depicts the national sport of French Canadians: hockey. Seen "from the inside" this seemingly simple game turns out to be not so simple.
11 December 1964
The story of a young university student who deals with love in the midst of the Quebec separatist movement in the 1960s.
01 January 1967
Documentary presenting the different stages of General de Gaulle's trip to Quebec in 1967, accompanied by extracts from his speeches.
08 August 1964
A young journalist is unhappy with society and contemplates what he can do about it. Symbolizes the political coming of age of the people of Québec.
21 February 2015
This feature documentary by Jean-Claude Labrecque recounts the bold and astounding enterprise of French filmmaker Julien Duvivier, who shot a film adaptation of Louis Hémon’s classic novel Maria Chapdelaine in Péribonka, a village in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, in 1934.
09 August 1963
A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality.
07 June 1991
When Remy, an ad consultant, falls in love with Sarah, the newest star of an ad campaign, sparks fly.
16 August 2007
Rejeanne and Gilles are a married couple whose devastating setbacks--she is laid off from her job and he suffers a debilitating stroke--only begin to fester in the face of corporate greed and personal struggles when they attempt to start over in a new neighborhood.
20 March 1975
Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as something of a shock to Louis Pelletier (Gilbert Sicotte).
01 January 1978
This short documentary revisits the 1976 Olympic Marathon. A modern-day addition to the Games, the marathon commemorates the soldier who ran cross-country, in 490 B.
12 August 1967
Four years after Pour la suite du monde (1963), director Pierre Perrault asks Alexis Tremblay if he'll agree to travel with his wife Marie to the country of their ancestors, France.
10 September 1980
In 1953, in the Gaspé forest, there are three bodies half eaten by bears. Fearing repercussions on tourism and investment, Prime minister Maurice Duplessis decided to make an example accusing Wilbert Coffin.
01 January 1970
This is a work share in the impressive filmography of Jean-Claude Labrecque! Crowned a Canadian Film Award (the ancestors of the Genii) Test the miles is almost unrivaled in the history of Quebec cinema.
01 January 1971
This experimental short film deals with anguish, as imagined by Claude Péloquin, author, poet, performer and filmmaker, in the early 1970s.
05 April 1982
Reflections on writing, life and death with French Canadian poet Marie Uguay, who would die of bone cancer shortly after the making of this film.
23 June 1968
A 23-year-old Canadian wanders aimlessly throughout his wasted life.
01 January 1974
A moving documentary about a poet not far from being a legend.
21 November 1997
About De Gaulle's eventful visit to Québec in 1967
31 December 1965
On your marks. Follow cyclists from 13 countries as they cover 2.400 km of Gaspé countryside in 12 days-a course longer than those of Italy, Belgium or Spain.
12 August 1967
A young singer-songwriter abandons his life in his hometown and moves to the city to make it big. He achieves fame, but it comes at a price.
28 September 2001
Yvonne is a young woman living in Quebec in the latter half of the 19th century, under the controlling influence of both her elder sister, Hélène, and the repressive Victorian society that pervades the area.
01 January 1968
Documents a woman's actual pregnancy; the emotions, the affects on her husband and first-born child, the birth itself via Caesarean section, and her struggle to return to work and a social life, while still being a good mother.
14 November 1968
This fictional feature follows a twenty-something man who is struggling to define his position in the world in early adulthood.
09 March 2001
On the eve of her final moments, a woman recalls her alcoholic past. She revisits her entire youth, including a binge that, at 46, cost her everything she had: "Loneliness and aging are themes that impose themselves on me, in one form or another.
26 August 2005
Two men bond as one recovers from an attack and the other deals with the impending death of his grandmother.
01 January 1964
In a lonely setting, a teenage girl dreams. She is bored, manifests childish rebellions: her nascent personality rears up and asserts itself.
10 September 1971
In Montréal, Jean-Pierre is fired on the set of a TV commercial where he's an apprentice technician. He's penniless, behind on his rent, with a thin resume and no college units. He has a fiancée, Michelle, but his head is turned by a free-spirited model, from the U.S., who saw him being fired and comes to his flat to apologize. She's Elizabeth, a combination of feckless innocence and sexual freedom. Jean-Pierre borrows money from his outlaw friend, Dock, and buys clothes to impress Elizabeth. Soon he's sleeping with her, and he pulls a theft with Dock to get money to take her to Acapulco. Michelle tries to bring him back to her orbit. Is there a way out for Jean-Pierre?
19 February 2011
A two-part in-depth exploration of the evolution of the private film industry, seen through the eyes of more than 50 industry professionals.
01 January 2006
Thanks to the development of techniques and the adventurous spirit of pioneering filmmakers, among whom Michel Brault occupies a central place, a new way of making cinema was born at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s.
21 April 1977
Edited from almost 100 km of film footage shot during the Games, this feature documentary is a breathtaking portrait of the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
20 March 1971
A meditation on society's attitudes and beliefs, as explored through a New France fur trapper's relationship with a Native woman that spans centuries.
20 September 1973
A pimp and his seven working girls move to a small conservative mining town in northern Quebec to establish a brothel.
01 January 1964
This short documentary shows Canada's top swimmers in training for the 1964 Olympic Games. Under the critical eye of coach Ed Healy, they practice long hours in the gym and in the pool to build strength and stamina.
19 November 1965
A worker, called in a hurry to remove the snow in the city street, try to buy his remaining gifts in the tumult of Christmas eve without quitting his work.
20 March 1972
In this French Canadian film, when the provincial government tries to move two young farmers from their land to make way for development, the two fight back, accidentally killing a policeman and becoming outlaws in the process.
02 July 2008
A Canadian documentary depicting Quebec City as it celebrates its 400th anniversary.
01 January 1985
An anthology of sequences from the best films that the National Film Board of Canada produced since its beginnings.
16 February 1973
Each married on their side, a teacher and a sociologist meet by chance in Quebec. Political and intellectual discussions followed a brief mad love.
29 October 2017
A genuine encounter with filmmaker Jean-Claude Labrecque, this feature-length doc underscores not only the importance of his work (especially in the documentary medium) but also his passion for film.
01 January 1964
A wealth of archival images offers a glimpse into Québec City’s social history in this tribute to French Canada’s first classical college, the Seminary of Québec.
12 September 1965
A behind-the-scenes documentary about director Michelangelo Antonioni as he's shooting his segment of The Three Faces, a vehicle for Soraya, the former empress of Persia.
15 October 1965
A film between reality and fiction about a popular singer, played by Joël Denis, idol of that time. He is surrounded by a host of great actors and real and famous characters from the 60s.
02 May 1995
The reality of life before, during, and after the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the profound effects the economic agreements between big business and government can have on human lives.
01 January 1970
Documentary about Charles Gagnon, Québécois politician, FLQ member and communist leader.
01 January 1971
Filmed for the most part from a low-flying aircraft, this documentary short presents a breathtaking view of Canada from coast to coast.
19 November 1993
A Canadian documentary about composer André Mathieu. Nominated for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 15th Genie Awards in 1994.
