96 min.

The Traveller

Robert is a successful dealer of Northwest Pacific First Nations masks but pain lurks behind his pale blue eyes. Although its nature is initially amorphous, this pain will adopt more defined forms once Robert’s business brings him to the autumnal shores of the West Coast.

There, not far from where he was raised in an Indigenous community on an island, Robert’s past will come rushing at him with the force of an offshore squall.

Confronted by the troubling discrepancy between what he’s become and what he was (once married to an Indigenous woman, he spent his university years as an activist for Native rights), Robert finds himself vertiginously suspended between vastly distinct cultural spheres. Yet, try as he does to divest himself of the trappings and priorities of the dominant culture, Robert finds his old life resistant to instant reclamation — it can’t be picked up like an old jacket.

Brimming with talent – Lazaro’s editing rhythms are eccentric, but let you catch the beat. Superbly evokes the West Coast.

Jay Scott – The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

1989 – 96 min.

Director, Co-Writer, Co-Producer, Editor
Bruno Lazaro
Co-Producer
Raymond Massey
Co-Writer
Jean Pierre Lefebvre

The Traveller

Festivals

Festival international du nouveau cinema, Montreal

Toronto International Film Festival

Vancouver International Film Festival

Calgary International Film Festival

Atlantic International Film Festival

Durban International Film Festival (South Africa)

Cape Town International Film Market and Festival (South Africa)

Festival International du Film d’Amiens (France)

Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris (France)

Other Projects

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