« C’est Félix Leclerc qui vous parle »Jeux fictionnels et rencontres audiovisuelles dans Félix Leclerc, troubadour de Claude Jutra

Abstract

Directed in 1958 by Claude Jutra, Félix Leclerc, troubadour is undeniably one of the most important films of the documentary series “Profils et paysages”, produced by the National Film Board of Canada in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Intended to highlight French-Canadian artists and intellectuals in the intimacy of their “interior landscapes”, the series is based on the connivance between the filmmaker and the filmed subject, as well as on the authenticity of the testimony that is given. Taking this somehow classic framework to better overthrow it, Jutra will instead transform Félix Leclerc, troubadour in an intriguing docu-fiction, where is also developed an intermedial reflection on cinema, poetry and music. With the methodical analysis of the various modes of enunciation of the film, our article intends to shed light on this interdisciplinary encounter between Leclerc’s and Jutra’s worlds.

Keywords

• intermediality
• documentary
• Claude Jutra
• Félix Leclerc
• interdisciplinarity
• song