MARIA CHAPDELAINE

Search Film, Company, People...

By Sébastien PILOTE

SPHERE FILMS INTERNATIONAL - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2021

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2021

Contemporary World Cinema

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Drama, Book adaptation
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- FRENCH-CANADIAN
- Duration
- 158 mn
- Director(s)
- Sébastien PILOTE
- Cast
- Sara MONTPETIT , Antoine Olivier PILON, Danny GILMORE, Robert NAYLOR, Hélène FLORENT
- Producer(s)
- Sylvain PROULX, Pierre EVEN
- Synopsis
- Maria Chapdelaine, a 16 year-old young woman, lives with her family on a land they are clearing, near the Péribonka River in rural Québec in early 1900. True pioneers, the Chapdelaine family struggles to push back the forest. In a home where even physical exhaustion cannot diminish the warmth of family life, Maria finds herself faced with a deep dilemma. François Paradis, a free-spirited fur trapper and logger, promises Maria to return in spring to marry her, while Lorenzo Surprenant arrives at the farm offering a comfortable existence in an American city, and Eutrope Gagnon, a quiet and determined young farmer has staked a claim on the land next to the Chapdelaine’s. Thrust into the adult world, and juggling with thoughts of land, family and love, Maria will suddenly be forced to choose her future as a woman.