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?

Leo, ou Leolo como prefere ser chamado, é um garoto solitário e sonhador, apaixonado pela Itália. Ele também admira muito seu irmão mais velho, um fisiculturista tão grande quanto frágil, e sua sensual vizinha, com quem sonha situações um tanto ousadas para a sua pouca idade.

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.