It’s not often that Hollywood takes on stories set during the 17th Century of New France aka the early Quebec North Americana territory. Arguably, you’d have to go back to the early 199…
It’s not often that Hollywood takes on stories set during the 17th Century of New France aka the early Quebec North Americana territory. Arguably, you’d have to go back to the early 1990s when such movies like Michael Mann’s even came close to the era. This despite the fact that the politics of the day between the French and British settlers, and the Wapanaki and Iroquois nations offer suspenseful tales ripe for any Western.
, a French settler making her way as an innkeeper to the British and the French who are stepping on each other’s toes in New France. Meanwhile,Golden Globe and Emmy nominee David Thewlis plays Monsieur Claude Trepagny, a flamboyant rich French settler who owns a bulk of the village’s land and is obsessed with building his “Doma” and a sky table in the trees.
Various plots hatch in this limited series adaptation of Annie Proulx’s novel, which is executive produced by Scott Rudin and Eli Bush. Newly arrived young women from France are seeking husbands, one of whom is Trepagny. There’s a pensive rep of the Hudson Bay company, Hamish Goames , who is looking for an enigmatic man by the name of Cross, a guy who abandoned his sister and her new baby.
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