Rumba Rules, New Genealogies

February 2004. Guy Caron and his wife Jeanne-d’Arc lived in the same house for more than 50 years. A sailor who sailed every ocean, Guy was away for eight months a year, for all his career. A housekeeper, Jeanne-d’Arc raised their nine children. Their old days bring them together; but something fundamental seems to have slipped away from them forever. The director looks at this couple from a voluntary distance, leaving ample room for his quest for meaning.

In a 1959 Union Nationale propaganda film, a narrator, sitting in the projection booth, suggests a diversion: revisiting the images of rural Quebec for what they are, by recreating the soundtrack live with 3 musicians.