Released Date:
2010-11-12
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (5586 Reviews)
Director:
Daniel GrouPatrick Senècal (adaptation)
Patrick Senècal (novel)
Bruno Hamel is a thirty eight year old surgeon. He lives in Drummondville with his wife Sylvie, and their eight year-old daughter Jasmine. Like many happy people, he is leading an uneventful life until a beautiful fall afternoon, when his daughter is raped and murdered. From then on, the world of the Hamel family collapses. When the murderer is arrested, a terrible project germinates in Bruno's darkened mind. He plans to capture the "monster" and make him pay for his crime. The day the murderer appears in Court, Hamel, who had prepared his plan in great detail, kidnaps the monster and later sends the police a brief message stating that the rapist and murderer of his daughter was going to be tortured for 7 days and then executed. Once this task accomplished, he will then give himself up.
Released Date:
2015-04-17
Languages:
French, Yiddish, English, Spanish, Hebrew, Italian
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (389 Reviews)
Director:
Maxime GirouxMaxime Giroux
Alexandre Laferrière
Fèlix and Meira is a story of an unconventional romance between two people living vastly different realities mere blocks away from one another. Each lost in their everyday lives, Meira (Hadas Yaron), a Hasidic Jewish wife and mother and Fèlix (Martin Dubreuil), a Secular loner mourning the recent death of his estranged father, unexpectedly meet in a local bakery in Montreal's Mile End district. What starts as an innocent friendship becomes more serious as the two wayward strangers find comfort in one another. As Fèlix opens Meira's eyes to the world outside of her tight-knit Orthodox community, her desire for change becomes harder for her to ignore, ultimately forcing her to choose: remain in the life that she knows or give it all up to be with Fèlix. Giroux's film is a poignant and touching tale of self-discovery set against the backdrops of Montreal, Brooklyn, and Venice, Italy.
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