Listen to the Prairies
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Canada, 1945 (documentaire, 21 minutes, noir et blanc, anglais)
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Autres titres :
« A City Sings », « Le chant des prairies »
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| Image : © Office national du film du Canada |
Description du film :
« À Winnipeg, au mois d'avril, a lieu le festival annuel de musique du Manitoba. Les spectateurs y assistent à des chants de sopranos et d'altos, de choeurs d'enfants, à des solos de violon et de piano ainsi qu'à la populaire comédie musicale de Gilbert et Sullivan intitulée The Pirates of Penzance. Le tout se termine par une interprétation saisissante de La Passion selon Saint-Mathieu de Bach. »
-- Office national du film du Canada
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| Générique (partiel) : |
| Scénario : | Gudrun Parker |
| Produit par : |
Gudrun Parker, Guy Glover |
| Société de production : |
National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada |
| Générique additionnel : |
Commentary [commentaire]: Budd Knapp |
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Citations sur Listen to the Prairies [en anglais]
« Gudrun Bjerring-Parker's poetic documentary Listen to the Prairies (1945) reconfigures the Canadian landscape tradition by juxtaposing singers at a Winnipeg music festival with the topology of Western Canada. »
-- Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, Janine Marchessault
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« The young Canadians [at the National Film Board] felt that a quieter, more tentative approach came closer to what they wanted to express in their films. Gudrun Parker, who had been at the Board during the war, led the way with her Listen to the Prairies (1945), a film of observation marked by the slow rhythm of its editing. An indigenous style was about to unfold. »
-- Piers Handling
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« Much of the reputation [of Listen to the Prairies] appears to come from the final shots—a series of slow dissolves of a mixed chorus that continues singing Bach over panning shots of immense wheat fields and tiny grain elevators on a long horizon. »
-- C. Rodney James
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« Although Gudrun [Parker] is twenty-six years old, she has produced a number of successful films [...]. Listen to the Prairies which was released theatrically as A City Sings, concerns her native Winnipeg, and tells the story of its annual music festival. So dramatically did she produce this film that when it was seen in New Brunswick the people there decided to inaugurate a similar festival. »
-- Betsy Mosbaugh
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