Maria Chapdelaine

Wonderful cinematography and landscapes dominate Sébastien Pilote's poignant, compelling, factually inspired, bittersweet, down-to-earth, well-acted,156-minute, 2021 film adapted from Louis Hémon's 1913 novel in which a pretty, headstrong 17-years-old (Sara Montpetit), who lives with her struggling, hardworking, homesteading parents (Sébastien Ricard and Hélène Florent) and five siblings (Arno Lemay, Thomas Haché, Charlotte Martin, Henri Picard, and Xavier Rivard-Désy) in rural northern Quebec, finds herself in 1900s being wooed by a woodsman and fur trapping guide (Émile Schneider), a nearby farmer (Antoine Olivier Pilon), and a well-to-do Massachusetts mill factory worker (Robert Naylor) and struggles with whom she will pick as her husband until a ser"ies of life-changing events occur.