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Directors: Les Blank, Maureen Gosling, Chris Simon
Run Time: 27 min
Year: 1991
Category: Documentary Short
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"Cajun Films by Les Blank" and The Savoy Family Cajun Band in Concert are supported by a grant from American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius, a major initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts aimed at acquainting Americans with the best of their cultural and artistic legacy.
Synopsis: Legendary filmmaker Les Blank's documentary MARC AND ANN delves directly into the heart of Cajun country to portray a couple devoted to the preservation of Louisiana French cultrue in their personal, as well as public, lives. When Marc is not busy stirring a large pot of gumbo or taking his children on a canoe trip through the swamp, he can frequently be found creating one of his beautiful squeeze box/acoordions, made out of plate hanger springs, tablecloth bellows, parts from commodes, and fine wood. The joy of Cajun music, its signature yelps and wails, filter through many of the kitchens, porches, and dance halls of the Savoy's Eunice, Louisiana community.
Les Blank has made more than 40 films and has been called "a master of movies about the American idiom" by Vincent Canby of The New York Times. His films have won awards throughout the world, have been selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for inclusion in The National Film Registry, and have been shown in major museum retrospectives.
