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Drowning under the abuses of her narcissist ex husband and condescending boss at Lotto-Gold, a young single mother on the brink of a mental breakdown is sent to the middle of nowhere, 15-year-old son in tow, to interview a strange hermit. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Mar 15, 2025 - 2 comments

Long before Dune and Blade Runner 2049, long before LA, Denis Villeneuve made a movie in Quebec that mashed up kitchen-sink drama, dark humour, Tom Waits songs, and a narrator that is also a dying fish. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Mar 11, 2025 - 5 comments

After witnessing her mother's murder, young Québecois woman Simone becomes both profoundly emotionally damaged, and unstuck in time. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Mar 5, 2025 - 3 comments

The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. [more inside]
posted by The Notorious SRD on Jan 9, 2025 - 8 comments

A (very) fictionalized retelling of the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, starring Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos and Guillaume Cyr. Ruth Landry is a tough middle-aged maple syrup farmer, who turns to crime when the bureaucratic authorities threaten to take away everything she loves. She teams up with a hot-tempered Bostonian mobster, and a mild-mannered French-Canadian security guard to carry out a multi-million dollar heist on Quebec's maple syrup surplus. [more inside]
posted by Monday, stony Monday on Dec 7, 2024 - 4 comments