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- “It’s about my roots, our roots. I dug a hole and I found multiple inhabitants of the specific lot,” Girard said in an interview from New York. “This is how it became what it became with the multiple stories.”
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Jan 18, 2018 · François Girard digs up Montreal's roots in Hochelaga, terre des âmes. “It’s something I wanted to say about my place, and my community,” Girard says of his bold film, which weaves together 750...
Sep 10, 2017 · Indigenous culture and history run through the film, from an imagined battle in the Iroquois village of Hochelaga in 1267, where an Iroquois prophet (Raoul Trujillo) looks into the future; to the...
Director François Girard said that the project grew out of his "tremendous affection for Montreal" and a desire to portray it in greater depth than in his 1998 feature The Red Violin. Girard remarked "I grew more and more interested in showing where I live, and pay (sic) tribute to the ancestors who lived there before us". [3]
Nov 14, 2017 · “For my own sake, I needed to dig into my own roots,” Girard told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at the Landmark Theatres in Los Angeles Monday night.
Jan 20, 2018 · Quebec film finds 750 years of Montreal history in a sinkhole. In Hochelaga, Land of Souls, director François Girard applies his trademark approach to historical sagas to his hometown. Until now...
François Girard delves into the complex history of Montreal. When a sinkhole appears in a football stadium, the site becomes an archaeological dig, led by a Mohawk graduate student at the Université de Montréal. The film tracks the progress of the dig, unearthing layers of history
[First paragraph] In his 2017 film, Hochelaga, terre des âmes (Hochelaga, Land of Souls), Québécois filmmaker François Girard delves into the complex history of Montreal. When a sinkhole appears in a football stadium, the site becomes an archaeological dig, led by a Mohawk graduate student at the Université de Montréal.
