Despite the fact that he is completely unrepentant about his crimes, when Regis Savoie's son asks to visit him, prison authorities grant permission for the boy to come. The thief and murderer (Gildor Roy) takes advantage of the moment of his son's arrival to steal a gun and take flight. He settles some old scores, gets together with his girlfriend, and heads for the hills, pursued by a detective who is not to be swayed in his efforts to follow and recapture him.
Acting
Gildor Roy's magnetic, zero-redemption performance.
Direction
Morin's docu-realist style blurs fiction and vérité.
Cinematography
Bleached Quebec winter as moral wasteland.
Director
Robert Morin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1990s Quebec 'cinéma de marge'—working-class stories told outside Montreal's French elite bubble.
Gildor Roy, a massive Quebec TV star, shocked audiences by playing this unrelentingly scuzzy. The casting itself was a provocation.
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