No, or The Vain Glory of Command
Pierre Jutras worked at the Cinémathèque québécoise for 33 years, first as curator of Quebec and Canadian cinema, then as director of programming. He recently passed away, and to honor his memory, we were fortunate enough to prepare a carte blanche with him, reflecting on his highlights as a programmer and film-lover (the rediscovery of Jean Epstein and Ivan the Terrible, the revelation of Wang Bing and the extraordinary retrospective devoted to Manoel de Oliveira...).
« "Fresques à personnages" comme seul le grand maître portugais sait faire. » – Pierre Jutras
Portuguese soldiers in the midst of the Angolan war in 1974 talk to each other. They talk about past conflicts, and Second Lieutenant Cabrita, a history teacher in civilian life, recounts some of his country's most bitter military defeats.
Manoel de Oliveira
Manoel de Oliveira est un réalisateur portugais. Il a tourné jusqu'à la fin de sa vie, devenant le premier réalisateur centenaire en activité de toute l'histoire du cinéma. Il est le seul cinéaste qui a été récompensé plus d'une fois par le prix de l'Âge d'or.
Pierre Jutras
Born in 1945 in Saint-Marcel-de-Richelieu, Pierre Jutras studied filmmaking at the Institut des arts de diffusion in Brussels in the 1970s, where he was introduced to documentary, fiction and experimental cinema. In 1978, he was hired by the Cinémathèque québécoise as Head of Quebec and Canadian Cinema and co-director of the Copie Zéro from 1979 to 1988. He was also behind the first restoration of the film Kamouraska, by Claude Jutra. In 1997, he became Director of Conversation and Programming at the Cinémathèque, a position he held until his retirement in 2011. Parallel to his professional activities, he directed Lamento pour un homme de lettres in 1988 and Petites chroniques cannibales 1 in 1997, the first segment of a trilogy that was never completed. He died in Montreal on June 22, 2023.
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