In a wealthy Montreal suburb, Xavier and his friends are composing with pre-teen boredom. They hang out at the park, ride their bikes, mess with each other; it's yet another suburban summer afternoon. But beneath the smiles lies a growing tension, an certain violence which leads the group to a collective release of unexpected intensity; a ritualistic initiation into adolescence.
Direction
Lagarde weaponizes boredom into dread.
Cinematography
Golden hour that curdles before your eyes.
Director
Ian Lagarde
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lagarde studied under Denis Villeneuve, and it shows in how he transforms mundane spaces into psychological pressure cookers.
The film's Quebecois suburban setting deliberately echoes the 2012 Maple Spring protests—youth awakening to systems of power, compressed into eleven minutes of backyard horror.
US
CA
