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Synopsis
Life is not going very well for brother and sister Maryse and Benoît Bossé. Maryse and her husband Alain have grown apart; Benoît, the eternal child, still lives with their widowed father, and his relationship with single mother Nathalie is being sabotaged by her son.
Synopsis
Life is not going very well for brother and sister Maryse and Benoît Bossé. Maryse and her husband Alain have grown apart; Benoît, the eternal child, still lives with their widowed father, and his relationship with single mother Nathalie is being sabotaged by her son.
Our take
Infused with a deadpan sense of humor and flourishes of magical realism, Quebecois director Stéphane Lafleur’s impressionistic follow-up to Continental: A Film Without Guns is a study of misfit siblings in Francophone Canada. A winterland for dropouts, set to the sounds of scintillating synth-pop.