![]() This whole film deserves endless praise for making people proud to be Canadian, and encourage us all to appreciate the finer things of family and our roots. ![]() One can almost smell the tourtiere being cooked slowly over a wood stove. Again, as a symbol of culture quebecoise, this is unsurpassed. The animation was good, as well, very surrealist, which brings attention to the idea of this being a whimsical daydream, fancying over better days gone by. His molasses-thick accent brought a lot of realism to the story. I thought it was brilliant to have Roch Carrier narrate this story. The book does this as well as the short, and I'm glad that in all the time I did spend studying French in high school, this was required reading in both languages. It takes everybody into a first-person experience of the culture, to the point that you wish you glued your hair in place and lived, breathed, and ate everything Maurice Richard. ![]() This is a piece of cinematic beauty, and it shows more of Quebec culture to others than probably any other work to come from la belle province. ![]()
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