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The River Schooners
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'The River Schooners' is a Canadian documentary film, which was directed by Pierre Perrault and released in 1968.David Clandfield, 'Pierre Perrault and the Poetic Documentary'. Indiana University Press, 2004. . The third and final film in his "le-aux-Coudres Trilogy" after 'Pour la suite du monde' and 'The Times That Are (Le rgne du jour)',[https://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2007/07/05/la-trilogie-de-l-ile-aux-coudres-pierre-perrault-la-revolution-documentaire_931978_3476.html ""La Trilogie de l'Ile-aux-Coudres" : Pierre Perrault, la rvolution documentaire"]. 'Le Monde', July 5, 2007. the film portrays workers in L'Isle-aux-Coudres, Quebec, who are employed in the traditional but fading art of building wooden schooners.
The film was released theatrically in 1968.Yves Laberge, "[https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/cd/2003-n74-cd1046221/7365ac/ Le cinma de Pierre Perreault : une rappropriation symboliquedun fleuve]". 'Cap-aux-Diamants', No. 74 (2003). pp. 4851. In 1972, it was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, as part of the New Cinema from Quebec program of 11 theatrical films from the province made between 1968 and 1971."New Cinema from Quebec". 'Cinema Canada', March 1972. p. 12.
The three films in the trilogy were released as a DVD box set in 2007.Odile Tremblay, [https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/cinema/140653/la-trilogie-de-l-ile-aux-coudres-en-dvd "La Trilogie de l'le-aux-Coudres en DVD"]. 'Le Devoir', April 24, 2007.
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