Marcel Sabourin Movies

A meditation on society's attitudes and beliefs, as explored through a New France fur trapper's relationship with a Native woman that spans centuries.

Two monks come to a small village to lead a simple life but their first act of charity is to try and seduce one of the village women.

A young Jesuit missionary reflects on his life and his faith while awaiting his execution at the hands of the Native Americans he came to convert.

In this French Canadian film, when the provincial government tries to move two young farmers from their land to make way for development, the two...

A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes...

A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins...

A pleasant fantasy about the setbacks experienced by a young man who loves costumes. His wife having left him, he goes after her to live some rather...

This plodding piece of cinematic ambiguity finds a married couple engaged in boring conversation in a window as scenery changes behind them. When...

A young man making a documentary stumbles into a place of magic he never imagined truly existed.

I, Barnabé takes a luminous look at a desperate man’s existential crisis. During a night of stormy drunkenness, he receives a visit from...

Every morning, Marcel confides in his tape recorder. It is from his reflections on life that this film takes us into the wake of his story.

A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to...

One day Jean-Baptiste Beauregard (Pierre Curzi) does not go out to face work or daily activities, instead he daydreams about the women in his past,...

A pilot who has not flown in years due to an accident has to deal with unexpected visitors and financial woes on the day he decides to return to the...

Tommy, a little boy who lives alone with his mother, sees a circus set up near his home. He sets off to discover this new world.