Set in the Faubourg à mélasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and a young team of baseball players.
Direction
Forcier's 40-year obsession with Quebec's margins
Costume
Grande noirceur aesthetics that sweat authenticity
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like poetry and sacrilege
Director
André Forcier
Rémi Brideau
Michel Paquette
Éric Bruneau
Vicaire Cotnoir
Rémy Girard
Cardinal Madore
Maïla Valentir
Angèle Moisan
Lilou Roy-Lanouette
Charlotte Saint-Amour
Pascale Montpetit
Délima Paquette
Martin Dubreuil
André Rochette
Mylène Mackay
Rose Saint-Amour
Devi-Julia Pelletier
Miss CKVL
Pierre-Luc Brillant
Curé Dazé
Laurent-Christophe De Ruelle
Zouave Pinette
Réal Bossé
Léo Rondeau
Hugolin Chevrette
Zouave Béluze
Donald Pilon
Eddie Vautour
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Faubourg à mélasse was Montreal's actual poor French-Canadian neighborhood, demolished for Expo 67—Forcier resurrects it like a ghost.
Rémy Girard has played corrupt Quebec authority figures for four decades; his Cardinal Madore reportedly made the actual archdiocese 'uncomfortable.'
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