La Mi-Carême seems to be the Quebecois equivalent of Mardis Gras, a time when Canadians will throw a bagful of confetti in your face and never apologize. Instead they will laugh.
And that's what we see here in a Lumiere movie that shows the traditional strengths of that production company: well-defined areas of the screen, competing lines of movement -- the floats travel on the upper half of the screen, while the lower half is dedicated to the crowd of onlookers; sometimes they pause to throw confetti at each other.
Compare this movie with similar ones that Edison's James White was doing, with ill-defined movement, and the crowds of onlookers with their backs to the camera, doing nothing at all.
And that's what we see here in a Lumiere movie that shows the traditional strengths of that production company: well-defined areas of the screen, competing lines of movement -- the floats travel on the upper half of the screen, while the lower half is dedicated to the crowd of onlookers; sometimes they pause to throw confetti at each other.
Compare this movie with similar ones that Edison's James White was doing, with ill-defined movement, and the crowds of onlookers with their backs to the camera, doing nothing at all.