The Death of a Lumberjack () is a 1973 Canadian drama film directed and co-written by Gilles Carle. The film was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot A young woman (Carole Laure) from rural Quebec comes to Montreal to find out the whereabouts of her father. She takes a job as a topless cowgirl singer in a nightclub owned by Armand (Willie Lamothe). Through her father's mistress, Blanche (Denise Filiatrault), she discovers he was working in a lumberjack camp and travels with Armand and Blanche to find him; however, it turns out he has been murdered by the camp's owners.
Reception The Death of a Lumberjack is one of Carle's best-known films in Quebec, although it's virtually unknown in the rest of Canada.Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film, ed. Wyndham Wise, University of Toronto Press, 2001, pp. 36-37 The film was seen by 188,372 people in France. It won Canadian Film Awards for Supporting Actor (Lamothe) and Musical Score.
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