SNACK BAR RHAPSODY

A film by Nicolas Paquet

Director

Nicolas Paquet

Production

Karine Soucy / franC doc

Language

French

Year

2017

78 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

Along the countryside roads, little white cabins attracts hungry people

Along the countryside roads, little white cabins attracts hungry people. Craving for their “poutine” and French fries, they keep coming back to their “cantine”, as they call those snack bars in Quebec. Run by women working long hours everyday, everysummer, those places embodies a strange summer ritual, a tradition standing against the fast food chains.

 

 

 

 

 

Directed by : NICOLAS PAQUET
Cinematography : FRANÇOIS VINCELETTE et FRANÇOIS GAMACHE
Sound Recording : PHILIPPE SCULTÉTY, MÉLANIE GAUTHIER et GUILLAUME LÉVESQUE
Editing : NICOLAS PAQUET
Sound Editing : MÉLANIE GAUTHIER
Music : FRED FORTIN
Produced by : KARINA SOUCY / franC doc

Nicolas Paquet

Nicolas Paquet is the co-founder of franC doc, a production company based in the Lower St. Lawrence region of Québec. He produced the documentaries Verdoyant pure laine (2006) and A beau venir qui part de loin (2007), both set in rural areas. In 2009, he directed his first film, L’âme d’un lieu – autopsie d’une boulangerie, folllowed by the feature documentary La règle d’or (The Golden Rule) in 2011. Filming small isolated places, he is searching for beauty, even in the darkest stories of our time.

 

Filmography

 

Esprit de cantine (2017 / 77 min)

Sugar Shack Tales (2016 / 14 min)

Living Like the Land (Ceux comme la terre) (2014 / 73 min)

The Golden Rule (La Règle d’or) (2011 / 75 min)

L’âme d’un lieu – autopsie d’une boulangerie (2009 / 30 mi