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F-0126

Title:

La Lutte
Wrestling
(Canada: English title)

Category:

S

Produced:

1961

Country:

Canada

Released:

Director:

Michel Brault; Marcel Carrière; Claude Fournier; Claude Jutra

Writer:

Actors:

Description:

Like most films to come out of the 'Quiet Revolution' period in Quebec, La Lutte is disarming in it's presentation and subject matter. The filmmakers used the then new handheld technology to shoot a documentary that superficially covers the local wrestling circuit of the day. What Jutra et al. were really interested in was the fact that the audience of such an event are fully aware that entertainment wrestling is fake. Using the cinema to explore these ideas (which were first examined by Roland Barthes, and he is thanked in the end credits) with the cinema verite aesthetic, one could conclude that the filmmakers were suggesting an overall, albeit subtle, thesis statement that was intended to comment on the cinema itself through the thin vale provided by the film's immediate subject matter. (henryflower, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

Language:

French

Bach's Music:

"L'Allegro du Concerto en sol", by J.S. Bach / A. Vivaldi
Kelsey Jones

Film Company:

National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

Format:

B&W film

VHS/DVD Label:

TT:

28 min

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Source/Links: IMDB
Contributor: Aryeh Oron (November 2007)


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