Solitary anarchist, Lucien Brouillard ceaselessly fights for his rights and those of his societal peers. His subversive whistleblower activities will bring him endless troubles, and he will begin a real descent into Hell after his former childhood friend, and now judge, Jacque Martineau.
Acting
Pierre Curzi's simmering dignity under bureaucratic siege
Direction
Carrière's claustrophobic framing of institutional power
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes politeness into cruelty
Director
Bruno Carrière
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Reflects 1970s-80s Quebec tensions between Quiet Revolution idealism and emerging neoliberal bureaucracy.
Pierre Curzi originally hesitated; his eventual acceptance created one of Quebec cinema's most understated martyrs.
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