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Shooting the film “Saint-Eustache de temps en temps” by Monique Villeneuve and Louis Bricault

A photograph of a woman with blue eyes and brown, medium-length hair digitally edited to look like a comic strip. She is looking straight at the camera. On the lower left corner of the image are the words “Shooting the film [Saint-Eustache de temps en temps]".

Image: The Fêtes du Vieux Saint-Eustache team (graphic design by Audrey Fauteux-Robillard), 1976.
Patrimoine culturel Vieux-Saint-Eustache collection.

Audio excerpt: Interview with Monique Villeneuve and Louis Bricault, two of the organizers of the Fêtes du Vieux Saint-Eustache, by Sandrine Contant-Joannin, ethnologist, 2023.
Excerpt length: 57 seconds. Patrimoine culturel Vieux-Saint-Eustache collection.

Monique Villeneuve, one of the organizers of the Fêtes du Vieux Saint-Eustache from 1974 to 1976, and Louis Bricault, an organizer of the event from 1974 to 1978, talk about the shooting of a scene from the film Saint-Eustache de temps en temps (Saint-Eustache from time to time) in the house of a very elderly couple. The excerpt of the interview is transcribed below :

Louis Bricault (LB): There was a variety of different things. That was where we shot the film, you know, with the people who lived in the village, the wires were crackling…

Monique Villeneuve (MV): Oh it was in there… My God, it’s a wonder it didn’t go up in flames! [laughter] No, we were a bit nervous…

LB: We were nervous.

MV: … because it was such an old house, it was an old […] couple who we’d interviewed and uh… with the big spotlights and all that… And it wasn’t very big, eh. It was a tiny room…

LB: Oh it was really small, and we were melting in there! It was so hot with the spotlights. And there were those two old people sitting there telling us their story because they had always lived in the village. So they went way back, you know! They were really generous with their time. And there we were filming and we heard the wires in the walls crackling because we were using so much power, you know… So that was the first film.