A village forgot its own hunger—until the tourists came to eat its soul.
A Docufiction about the twin realities of the Nominingue village in rural quebec, a poverty town turned vacation spot. where the older generation remembers the harsh conditions and poverty that afflicted them, while younger generations and tourist deal with ennui.
Direction
Leduc blurs documentary and fiction like memory itself.
Cinematography
Bleak Quebec winters that ache with beauty.
Director
Jacques Leduc
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Quebec's 'Direct Cinema' movement, this film captures the Quiet Revolution's shadow—rural francophones watching their world become a theme park.
Denys Arcand appears before directing 'The Decline of the American Empire'—he was already obsessed with Quebec's class wounds.
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