Richard Boutet
Richard Boutet (1940-2003) was an engaged filmmaker, both in terms of his social concerns and his commitment to revitalizing the documentary genre. He began directing fiction films in 1972 before moving on to powerful feature-length documentaries such as La maladie c’est les compagnies (1979), Le Spasme de vivre (1991) on youth suicide, and Le chemin brut de Lisette et Germain (1995) on art therapy. The Ballad of Hard Times (1983), winner of the Critics’ Award for Best Quebec Film, the Silver Sesterce, and the Ecumenical Prize at the Nyon International Film Festival, and the docu-fiction film with Joe Bocan, La guerre oubliée (1987), about the Quebec resistance during World War I, received the Innovation Quebec-Alberta Award. His latest documentary, Sexe de rue (2003), won the Best Canadian Film Award at the World Film Festival in 2003.
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The Ballad of Hard Times
Duration: 1h30
_The Ballad of Hard Times_ is a musical tragedy, a sung chronicle, a tale of the suffering, solidarity, and resilience of ordinary people during the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is also a journey through time aboard the economy’s runaway train. It is the revelation of this collective memory that history seeks to make us forget, but which ordinary people remember with the precision of a bad...
The Ballad of Hard Times
Duration: 1h30
_The Ballad of Hard Times_ is a musical tragedy, a sung chronicle, a tale of the suffering, solidarity, and resilience of ordinary people during the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is also a journey through time aboard the economy’s runaway train. It is the revelation of this collective memory that history seeks to make us forget, but which ordinary people remember with the precision of a bad...
