Maria Chapdelaine. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 1913 book, Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of French Canada
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Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of French Canada
Louis Hémon, 1913
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Sebastien Pilote, 2021

Maria Chapdelaine is a young sixteen-year-old girl who lives with her family on the shores of the Peribonka River in rural Quebec in the 1910s. Where the harshness of everyday life meets the delicacy of a warm family life, the strong and hopeful Maria finds herself faced with daunting dilemmas. Between tradition, territory, family and love, young Maria is pushed into the adult world and will suddenly have to choose her future as a woman.