Guillaume Sylvestre’s documentary reveals an amazing universe, where African and North African teachers teach the Innu community.
Presented at the Cinésept festival in Sept-Îles and as part of the Quebec Cinema meeting, Measure takes place in the locality of the same name, landlocked reserve in Schefferville, inaccessible by road.
Kanatamat high school serves young adolescents, who have the particularity of having mainly teachers from Africa and North Africa. The subject, unusual and original, intrigue, the director Guillaume Sylvestre filming the daily life of the secondary classes and mixing interviews with the teachers as well as with Pascal Foucault, the director.
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The filmmaker’s bias is clear from the start: he voluntarily disappears from the discourse, even if we feel his will to establish links between the experience of the teaching staff and that of the students. But without real narrative framework, Measure run out quickly. The interviews also sometimes seem juxtaposed to each other, letting the spectator try to guess the intention of Guillaume Sylvestre.
We nevertheless appreciate being able to observe the work of the teachers, a little like a fly on a wall, to see their efforts to interest the students and establish a link with them.
Note: 2.5 out of 5
Measure is presented in the room from May 2.
