claude henri grignon -- dubouquet visite l'avare (1962) -- english subs

Alexis Labranche has returned to Sainte Adèle to open a blacksmith shop. A woman who fell in love with him while he was on exile in Colorado, Gladys "Baby" Mayfair, decides to follow him back to Québec and builds herself a castle near Sainte Adèle (shot on location at the old Le Manoir private high school in Mascouche). "Baby" is an extremely wealthy stockholder in businesses all around the world. Alexis leaves Sainte-Adèle on a drinking spree and seeks refuge in Montréal, at his friends' Theodore Bouchonneau, his wife and their adopted daughter, Rosa Rose Ducresson. Theodore is a Sainte Adèle native who now works in a Montréal factory.
In the meantime, Father Antoine Labelle, head of the Saint Jérôme Roman Catholic Church and Quebec State Dept. Secretary of Colonization, loses his assistant Arthur Buies, who chose another career path. Buies is replaced with Joseph Néron Dubouquet. Labelle commissions him to draw a census of the Sainte Adèle area. That will get Dubouquet to meet with Sainte-Adèle's "two-fisted supremo", Séraphin Poudrier.
"Dubouquet visite l'avare" (Dubouquet visits the miser) was made in 1962 and broadcasted as an episode of the famed CBC TV drama "Les belles histoires des pays d'en haut" (Beautiful Highcountry Tales). Entirely shot on 16mm, it features the fine writing skills of Claude Henri Grignon.
At the heart of the great script by Grignon, lies the opposition between the parochial, collectively-oriented values of a needy and obedient Roman Catholic nation (pictured as the townsfolks of Sainte-Adèle), and the ideology of Puritanism (pictured as the character named Séraphin Poudrier), which allows for a part of individualistic wealth. As such, Grignon's work is strong metaphorical stuff. Under cover of a mild historical vignette, it reveals to be a witty and multilayered comment on the tensions that divide contemporary Quebec. This is unexpendable viewing for anyone who wishes to have a clear grasp on the social components of North America's next country to soon emerge, namely Québec.
This 16mm medium length is, for the time being, only available on a lousy DVD made from VIDEOTAPES of the original film stock. You can count on the blockheads at the so-called "canadian broadcasting corporation" to make a straight-to-digital 720px transfer of this fine show sometime in the 31st century -- instead of the actual crummy optical-to-digital transfer. In the meantime, visit jaaaacques' channel frequently for more great subtitled episodes of "Les belles histoires".
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This posting is a very slightly reedited version of the original episode. At the end, Gladys Mayfair originally plays a piano piece which copyright protection prevents the episode to display in some countries of the world. I simply replaced the music she's playing with something similar, and apparently, and up to now, the replacement is tolerated by the copyright owner(s) and/or manager(s).

[@felixetrosanne9574]

Ma rosanne trippe ses belle histoires ont les écoutes 100 X par jour

[@Spikeangelsolidsnake]

C'est vous nouveau secrétaire du gros curé ben enchanté j'ai bien entendu parler vous.

[@Spikeangelsolidsnake]

1200 ans c`est vieux.

[@amotsdecouverts1]

Super beaux souvenirs

[@angerykugauthier393]

Câlisse que notre accent à changer !!! ;)

[@aildoux]

Dommage que personne ne commente en anglais malgré les sous-titres. Let this be the first one....... ;-)

[@jaaaacques]

Au Québec, les seuls parlant-anglais qui s'intéresseront aux "Belles Histoires" sont ceux qui vivent au Québec depuis longtemps. Et la plupart de ceux là comprennent le français. En outre, pour pouvoir commenter sur KZbin, il faut avoir un identifiant. Et la plupart des visiteurs sur KZbin n'en ont pas

[@christianlacroix9133]

love

[@caraquet10]

mettez en d,autre svp

[@jaaaacques]

désolé caraquet10... Problèmes d'ordi! Mais si tu es abonné, tu sauras tout de suite quand je les aurai résolus :-)

[@Spikeangelsolidsnake]

Aurélie c`est tu la fille de la Grosse?

[@bernardmenard3056]

Oui, mais pas la fille génétique de Thodore

[@jaaaacques]

@Mikael perusse: Dubouquet est le secrétaire personnel du curé Labelle, en remplacement d'Arthur Buies. Il n'est pas précisé si Dubouquet a réellement existé

[@Spikeangelsolidsnake]

c`est vous nouveau secrétaire du gros Curé ben enchanter j`ai bien entendu parlé vous lui dit Séraphin Poudrier.

[@stephanelauzon15]

bravo j ai hate d en voir d autre

[@franckydave]

kkun a changer la music du piano....ce n'est pas l'original.

[@jaaaacques]

Lorsque j'ai voulu afficher l'épisode avec la musique originale, j'ai été bloqué par le propriétaire de contenu de la musique en question. Je l'ai remplacé au montage par une autre, et cette autre est tolérée par son propriétaire pour l'instant