René Bonnière Trailers

Perfect Timing Trailer (1986)

04 February 1986

Perfect Timing is the story of Harry Crane, an infamous photographer whose sublime and evocative images single-handedly reshaped and rebuilt the boudoir and fitness industries.

Turlutte Trailer (1960)

01 January 1960

In a valley on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence, the seasons unfold with their chores and pleasures: children gathering roses for honey, an old uncle's wine, pressing apple cider, three brothers shelling broads beans, their flails beating time, grandmother's spinning wheel, the old stone mill, the rushing rivulets of spring, a silvery catch of capelin washed up on shore by the May Moon.

Labor of Love Trailer (1984)

01 January 1984

A young labor organizer leaves Ottawa for New Brunswick to settle a strike of five garage workers.

La Pitoune Trailer (1960)

01 January 1960

The Jean Richard Trailer (1963)

01 January 1963

The building of a goélette, the wooden coastal freighter of the St. Lawrence River. Although ships of steel may replace these sturdy wooden vessels, the Jean Richard, shown in construction in this film, is still one ship built with all the old pride in craftsmanship.

Canadian Diamonds Trailer (1960)

01 January 1960

When Cartier wintered at Cap Rouge near Québec City in 1641, he claimed to have detected diamonds in the surrounding hills.

On the Sea Trailer (1960)

01 January 1960

Three communities at the foot of the Charlevoix cliffs, Petite-Rivière, île-aux-Coudres and Les Éboulements, practise the myriad trades of the sea.

Winter Sealing at La Tabatière Trailer (1963)

01 June 1963

Life in a north-shore village where everybody's name is Robertson and where everyone hunts for seal. In December the seals come in great herds from Greenland, and for two weeks in this peaceful village it's all hands to the lines.

Soirée at St. Hilarion Trailer (1960)

01 January 1960

A virtual prisoner of the winter snows that block its roads, the village of St.Hilarion, to justify its name, revels in the joys of the jig and the "turlutte", the lilting songs that tell the humorous tale, ever new and yet essentially always the same, about the sorry fate of the one who gives into temptation.

The Land of Jacques Cartier Trailer (1963)

01 June 1963

Did Cartier dream of making a country from this land of a million birds? In his records of his exploration he certainly marvelled at seeing the great auks that have since disappeared from Isle aux Ouaiseaulx, the razor-bills and gannets that are gone from Blanc-Sablon, and the kittiwakes from Anticosti, all the winged creatures of all the islands which he described as being "as full of birds as a meadow is of grass".

White-Whale Hunters of Anse-Aux-Basques Trailer (1960)

01 January 1960

On the North Shore of the St. Lawrence, the Otis family hunts for white whales and seals with rusty old rifles in hand-crafted boats.

Hide and Seek Trailer (1984)

01 July 1984

In this adaptation of the 1977 sci-fi novel, "The Adolescence of P-1," a high school whiz kid's computer program accidentally hooks into the mainframe computer of a nuclear power plant.

Craftsmen of Canada Trailer (1957)

01 January 1957

Man's need to create beauty, to interpret the world around him in image and color, has found expression in many forms, from the days of primitive culture to the present.

Islands Trailer (1984)

26 November 1984

A troubled teenager is sent to a summer cabin to help a woman, who turns out being her actual birth mother.

Whalehead Trailer (1963)

01 January 1963

Shows Tête-à-la-Baleine, Québec, a village with a double life--one on the North Shore mainland during winter months, the other on mossy islands of the Gulf to which the entire population moves for summer fishing.

Winter Crossing at L'Isle-Aux-Coudres Trailer (1960)

01 January 1960

On an island the road ends where it begins, at the wharf. The wharf is the link to the rest of the world, until winter cuts it off.

Ka Ke Ki Ku Trailer (1960)

15 January 1960

This early work from Pierre Perrault, made in collaboration with René Bonnière, chronicles summer activities in the Innu communities of Unamenshipu (La Romaine) and Pakuashipi.

Goosebumps: You Can't Scare Me! Trailer (1996)

05 October 1996

Hat and Eddie despise Courtney, the teacher's pet, and constantly try to scare her. They eventually decide to trick her into thinking the local "mud monster" legend is true, but, in the process, get much more than they bargained for.

The Royal Diaries: Elizabeth I - Red Rose of the House of Tudor Trailer (2000)

04 November 2000

Towards the end of her father Henry the VIII's reign, a young Elizabeth quarrels with half-sister Mary Tudor and worries that her beloved stepmother Catherine Parr will face the same fate as Henry's other wives, including Elizabeth's mother Anne Boleyn.

Attiuk Trailer (1963)

19 July 1963

The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are seen but not heard in this richly detailed documentary about the rituals surrounding an Innu caribou hunt.

Goosebumps: Be Careful What You Wish For... Trailer (1996)

11 May 1996

When terminally unpopular Samantha meets a strange woman who offers to grant her three wishes, she soon finds herself in deep trouble.

Generator 4 Trailer (1956)

01 January 1956

A BAFTA award nominated Canadian documentary about the building of the fourth generator building at Kitimat, British Columbia and the aluminium smelters it will supply.