A retired hitman pulls two triggers. His daughter pays the price 3,000 miles away.
In Montréal, a retired hitman is forced to take charge again and commit two murders without knowing he is about to trigger a series of events that will put his daughter's life in danger in Paris.
Acting
Gérard Lanvin's weathered gravitas—every silence weighs a ton.
Direction
Luc Picard bridges Montréal grit and Parisian elegance with surgical precision.
Director
Luc Picard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
French-Canadian cinema has long weaponized the hitman as existential everyman—this continues Picard's fascination with working-class violence and masculine collapse.
The title 'Violences' plural suggests not just acts but systems—violence as inheritance, as geography, as language between fathers and daughters.
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