27 minutes that'll make you nostalgic for a life you never lived.
This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to midnight, we take in the neighbourhood’s pulse: a mother fussing over children, a father's enforced idleness, teenage boys clowning, young lovers dallying - the unposed quality of daily life.
Cinematography
Unposed faces that feel staged by accident.
Direction
Aquin turns a neighborhood into protagonist.
Director
Hubert Aquin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Saint-Henri was Montreal's industrial heartland; this 1962 portrait captures the neighborhood mere years before deindustrialization hollowed it out.
Hubert Aquin abandoned filmmaking after this—he became one of Quebec's most celebrated novelists instead, making this his sole directorial ghost.
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