The Coffin Affair
The Cinémathèque québécoise is pleased to partner with Éléphant : mémoire du cinéma québécois to show each month, on the big screen, a restored work from its film repertoire.
In the presence of composer Anne Lauber, and Jérôme Labrecque, son of the filmmaker
Events leading up to Wilbert Coffin's execution by hanging on February 8, 1956, for the murder of three American hunters.
Jean-Claude Labrecque
Jean-Claude Labrecque trained as a camera assistant at the NFB. As a cinematographer, he shot many of the early key films of Claude Jutra (À tout prendre), Michel Brault (Entre la mer et l'eau douce), Gilles Carle (La vie heureuse de Léopold Z), Gilles Groulx (Le chat dans le sac) and Don Owen (The Ernie Game). He left the NFB in 1967 to set-up his own production company, although he continued to freelance with the Board. Throughout his lengthy career, Jean-Claude Labrecque’s interests focused on matters of concern to the Québécois people, whether in sports, culture or politics. His better-known films include La visite du Général de Gaulle au Québec, Games of the XXI Olympiad and his second feature, Les vautours, an eloquent and charming personal meditation on the birth of a generation, considered by critics to be his best film. He also served as Bernard Émond's cameraman on such critically acclaimed films as The Woman Who Drinks, The Novena and Summit Circle. Among his many awards and citations, he won two Canadian Film Awards, in 1964 and 1970, and the Jutra Award for Best Documentary in 2003.
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