Pour la Suite du Monde references the first and early documentary film Nanook of the North. Even though Nanook of the North is considered the first documentary, it has been criticized for some of the staged events that occurred during filming. This brings in the idea and structure of both films and how they have both documentary and fictional aspects within the films. Nanook of the North is a documentary film with a few fictional aspects while Pour la Suite du Monde is a fictional film with a certain documentary feel.
In the opening first shots of both films, there are intertitles that give the general premise of the two films. Pour la Suite du Monde is referencing the early style of filmmaking in the silent era. Intertitles were used to provide the spectator with information that is needed to understand the film during the time where sounds in film had not been developed. Pour la Suite du Monde gives this homage to that early style of filmmaking and to Nanook of the North and its ability to present this documentary and story without the use of dialogue or narration. Right after the intertitles, Nanook of the North cuts to an extreme shot of the landscape. This establishing shot provides the setting of the entire film. It tells the spectator exactly where and when this documentary is taking place. In Pour la Suite du Monde, there is also that landscape and establishing shot. This helps to reference this type of documentary aspect and how the filmmaker is trying to provide this objective and storytelling/documentary point of view. The intertitles present a type of storytelling and almost fictional aspects to both films. This is combined with the establishing landscape shot, which provides the documentary aspect, to create this blurred documentary/fiction line within both films.
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