{"id":8705,"date":"2014-05-05T00:07:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T04:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8705"},"modified":"2014-05-05T00:07:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T04:07:39","slug":"film-sower-the-le-semeur-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8705","title":{"rendered":"Film: Sower, The \/ Le Semeur (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Sower2013_pic\"<\/a>Film<\/strong>: Very Good<\/p>\n

Transfer<\/strong>: \u00a0n\/a \u00a0Extras<\/strong>:\u00a0n\/a<\/p>\n

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Region:<\/strong>\u00a0n\/a<\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0n\/a<\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0 Documentary \/ Hot Docs 2014<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Passive and oddly soothing portrait of\u00a0Patrice Fortier and his passion to cultivate and sell seeds of rare heirloom vegetables and flowers.<\/p>\n

Special Features:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0n\/a<\/span><\/p>\n

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Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Patrice Fortier isn\u2019t exactly on a mission to save the world\u2019s rarest plants by harvesting seeds from so-called heirloom varieties of vegetables and flowers, but he does acknowledge his work \u2013 originally an art project that soon became a consuming business (La societe des plantes<\/a>) \u2013 is keeping alive the purity of certain foods deemed worthless in today\u2019s market, yet were once part of the more varied diets of prior generations.<\/p>\n

Based in Quebec\u2019s beautiful St. Lawrence valley \u2013 chilly in the winter, sunny and verdant in summer \u2013 Fortier is shown gathering test seeds in the fall to grow produce that will yield enough seeds for locals and travelers at nearby market. His hands-on approach may seem painstaking to the impatient \u2013 it can take up to 4 years to yield a small bucket which will produce thousands of an exotic squash variety \u2013 but there\u2019s a zen quality to both his tender care towards the plants and the doc itself, flowing through seasons and fixating on the tedious and the superficially mundane. Boasting rich colours, striking compositions, and a quirky use of music, Julie Perron\u2019s doc is a small glimpse of how the diversity of naturally occurring produce was once cherished before the advent of large-scale agriculture.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2014 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/strong>
\nIMDB<\/a> \u00a0— \u00a0Hot Docs 2014 Listing<\/a>
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\nAmazon.ca<\/a>\"\" \"\" —\u00a0<\/span> Amazon.com<\/a>\"\" \"\" —\u00a0<\/span> Amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrice Fortier isn\u2019t exactly on a mission to save the world\u2019s rarest plants by harvesting seeds from so-called heirloom varieties of vegetables and flowers, but he does acknowledge his work \u2013 originally an art project that soon became a consuming business…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[2728,461,2711,2739,2727],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2gp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8720,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions\/8720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}