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September Five at Saint-Henri

Hubert Aquin · Canada · Documentary · 27 min · 6.8K views

Directed by Hubert Aquin · Starring Bill Davies · 1962

A day-in-the-life portrait of Saint-Henri, a working-class Montreal neighbourhood, captured on the first day of school in 1962.

A landmark of direct cinema capturing a vanished working-class Montreal in candid vignettes.

This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school.

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