Hair of the Bear vs The Death of a Lumberjack

Hair of the Bear has the higher audience score (10/10 against 4.9/10 for The Death of a Lumberjack). Hair of the Bear is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 55m. The Death of a Lumberjack is the older of the two (1973 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hair of the Bear posterHair of the Bear2026 VS The Death of a Lumberjack posterThe Death of a Lumberjack1973
Hair of the BearThe Death of a Lumberjack
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 4.9/10
Year20261973
Length1h 32m1h 55m
GenresDrama, ThrillerDrama
CountryCanada–
DirectorAlexandre Trudeau, James McLellanGilles Carle
Main castMalia Baker, Robert Naylor, Roy Dupuis, Catherine Bérubé, Jonathan LawrenceDaniel Pilon, Carole Laure, Willie Lamothe, Pauline Julien, Marcel Sabourin

Synopsis

Hair of the Bear

Refusing to go to school, anxious 16-year-old Tori is driven by her mother to her grandfather's rustic cabin in Eastern Manitoba on the remote American-Canadian border. As Tori struggles to adapt to the woodsman ways of her French Canadian grandfather, she ultimately must embrace the outdoors if she is to survive the deadly game of cat and mouse she is thrust into.

The Death of a Lumberjack

This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that…

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