Jacques Marcotte

Amid the low-rent neighborhoods of Montreal, the true nature of a career criminal is slowly unveiled. BenoÎt is a car thief perpetually running from the police, his family, his ex-lovers, and a 14-year-old hood who badly needs a father figure. But after he falls for the lovely Sylvie while trying to boost her car, can BenoÎt commit to turning his life around?

Amid the low-rent neighborhoods of Montreal, the true nature of a career criminal is slowly unveiled. BenoÎt is a car thief perpetually running from the police, his family, his ex-lovers, and a 14-year-old hood who badly needs a father figure. But after he falls for the lovely Sylvie while trying to boost her car, can BenoÎt commit to turning his life around?

Léolo es un niño que vive en un humilde barrio de Montreal, atrapado en una sórdida existencia. Cada noche intenta evadirse por medio de los recuerdos, los sueños y su desbordante imaginación, pero la cruda realidad familiar interrumpe siempre sus fantasías: tiene un padre obsesionado por la salud intestinal de toda la familia, un hermano culturista que vive preso del miedo, dos hermanas que padecen trastornos mentales, un abuelo a quien nadie presta demasiada atención y una madre enorme que domina el microcosmos familiar.

In this tragicomedy, Toni is the director of a staged rendition of Othello in Montreal. It is a pet project of his, financed by his loving mafia uncle. Unbeknownst to him, the audiences are also rounded up (and paid) by the same uncle. Some of them have seen every performance of this tragic play, and are understandably bored, so when the backstage romantic shenanigans of the actors result in absurd situations onstage, the audience is delighted. There are a huge number of romantic situations going on in this film at the same time. One of them involves Gaston a somewhat world-weary jazz musician, and Florence, a glamorous middle-aged woman who has been pining for him for years. Another involves to members of the musician's jazz trio. Yet another involves the play's Desdemona, Soledad, the girlfriend of the man playing Othello, who can't keep his hands off his (female) dresser.

A Montreal man imagines a mermaid in place of the writer whose picture appears on a novel.

A Montreal man imagines a mermaid in place of the writer whose picture appears on a novel.

In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.

In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.

Tragicomic portrait of a bar's owners and patrons in a poor Montreal neighbourhood.

Tragicomic portrait of a bar's owners and patrons in a poor Montreal neighbourhood.

A seemingly idle guy and an unprincipled girl to whom everything seems to come easily will see their lives sealed in a brutal way.

First film by director Marc-André Forcier (André Forcier), produced over a period of several years, with a meager budget and under artisanal conditions.