Pierre Jutras
Directing
Biography
Pierre Jutras was the person responsible for Quebec and Canadian cinema at the Cinématèque québécoise until 1997 when he became the Director of Programming and Conservation, a position he held until his retirement in 2011. Pierre Jutras did two films: Lamento pour un homme de lettres (1988) and Petites chronique cannibales 1. Rosalie (1996). He died in 2023.
Known For
Lamento is an unfinished novel by writer Albert Laberge. Laberge, recognized today as Quebec's first naturalist author, published La scouine in 1918, a novel that earned him accusations of pornography from the Catholic Church. The fiction paints an impressionistic portrait of a man torn between his literary ambitions and his exhausting work as a sports journalist for the daily La Presse.
Lamento pour un homme de lettres
After her Senegalese lover leaves her, Rosalie keeps brooding over his obsessive memory. The crucial need to speak of her distress drives her to a psychotherapist. Her introspection helps her grasp her insatiable attaction to dark-skinned men.