Your surgeon saves lives. One patient wants to end his. Who loses their mind first?
A well-respected plastic surgeon dedicated to helping patients with severe burns questions his career, his family…his perfect life and ultimately, his sanity when an encounter with a disgruntled patient triggers a psychological spiral no one can control.
Acting
Christian Bégin's controlled unraveling is surgical precision itself.
Direction
Morin's tight 4:3 framing turns every room into a trap.
Writing
Dialogue so mundane it becomes terrifying—no villain monologues needed.
Director
Robert Morin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Infiltration barely made waves outside Quebec, but it's part of a wave of 2010s Québécois cinema exploring masculine crisis through genre—think Incendies' little brother having an existential breakdown.
The title's double meaning—in physical infiltration of tissue, and psychological infiltration of domestic space—only fully lands after you've watched Louis's sanctuary collapse scene by scene.
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