During the Christmas holiday season, Félix and Céline find themselves working as volunteers for the drive-home service Opération Nez Rouge. Right from the first, Félix falls for Céline. But Céline doesn't feel the same way: she can't forget the fact that Félix once wrote a scathing review of her first piece of writing, crushing her literary ambitions in the process. Worse, Félix doesn't even remember her name. Céline decides to take her revenge. Just as things seem to be going from bad to worse for Félix, Céline realizes that he is vulnerable, tender... and madly in love with her. She is ready to surrender to love... but a chance encounter causes her to wonder whether Félix isn't playing some twisted love game.
Acting
Huard and Pelletier weaponize charm and resentment equally.
Writing
Dialogue that treats emotional warfare as competitive sport.
Production
Montreal winter as romantic obstacle and character.
Director
Érik Canuel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Opération Nez Rouge is a real Quebec volunteer service; the film basically functions as charming propaganda for it.
Dany Laferrière plays himself—a celebrated Haitian-Québécois writer—adding meta-commentary on whose literary criticism actually matters.
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