

A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.
Direction
Villeneuve's early masterpiece of restraint and formal control.
Cinematography
Pierre Gill's high-contrast 35mm black-and-white haunts.
Sound
The absence of score, the weight of breath and footsteps.

Director
Denis Villeneuve
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Villeneuve co-wrote with Éric Lecaedal, who actually attended Polytechnique during the massacre—this is survivor cinema.
The December 6, 1989 Montreal Massacre remains Canada's deadliest mass shooting; this film reopened national wounds Villeneuve refused to sanitize.