The Wicker Man
Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
New 4K restoration (Final cut)
In the presence of Dominic Hardy
Sergeant Neil Howie is assigned to investigate the disappearance of Rowan Morrison, a young girl, on the remote Scottish island of Summerisle. A devout Christian, Howie is quickly shocked by the freewheeling behavior of the inhabitants, who practice Celtic paganism. As he confronts the conspiratorial silence of the islanders and their enigmatic lord, Lord Summerisle, Howie begins to suspect the worst. Perhaps Rowan has been murdered?
Robin Hardy
Robin St. Clair Rimington Hardy is a British film director, screenwriter and producer. After studying in Paris in 1950, he began working as a director for the National Film Board of Canada and made television programs in the USA. He then returned to England to direct commercials. With novelist Anthony Shaffer, he founded the production company Hardy, Shaffer & Associates. In 1973, he directed his first feature film, The Wicker Man. Scripted by Shaffer, it is considered by the British Film Institute to be one of the best films in the history of British cinema.
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The Wicker Man : archives
Plongez dans l’univers du film culte The Wicker Man grâce à une sélection de documents ayant appartenu à Robin Hardy et récemment redécouverts.
Jusqu'au 4 septembre 2023 dans le foyer Luce-Guibeault.
