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<\/a>Winner of this years Best International Film at SBIFF, Guy \u00c9doin’s French-Canadian film\u00a0Ville-Marie will shake\u00a0you and grip you\u00a0till then end.\u00a0Deserving of all its’ success, those who were fortunate enough to catch the U.S. premier know what I mean when I say that you are hooked from the start.\u00a0With\u00a0a jolting first scene, you soon find it hard to turn away. Though the lives of the\u00a0disheveled characters don’t fully come together till the end, the suspense, mystery and complexity of each character will keep you intrigued.<\/p>\nSet in downtown Montreal, the film opens up with\u00a0Sophie Bernard (Monica Belluci), a beautiful European actress, arriving at the airport. While Sophie had come to Montreal to shoot a film, her son Thomas (Aliocha Schneider) also happens to go to University in town. As the story unfolds, the complexity of Sophie and her relationship with her son Thomas becomes apparently rocky. Thomas, never knowing\u00a0his birth father, blames his mother for keeping his identity a secret and loathes her for not telling him. As their relationship intensifies and begins to spiral out, you are also introduced to a paramedic and nurse from the local hospital Ville-Marie. The paramedic Pierre Pascal (Patrick Hivon) and nurse Marie Santerre (Pascale Bussieres) have complexities and demons of their own that become apparent as the movie plays out, but none seem so well orchestrated as Sophie and Thomas’.<\/p>\n
Though the personal lives of both Pierre and Marie’s are touched on, they don’t conclude with as much clarity as those of Sophie and Thomas’. Though all of their lives soon become intimately intertwined, the well coordinated and performed role of Sophie will compensate for the minor gaps in character development amongst the others. An overall beautifully shot, well composed, wonderfully scripted piece, Guy \u00c9doin has shown that he is most definitely a young director to lookout for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reviewed by Dakota Miller-Thompson. Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Winner of this years Best International Film at SBIFF, Guy \u00c9doin’s French-Canadian film\u00a0Ville-Marie will shake\u00a0you and grip you\u00a0till then end.\u00a0Deserving of all its’ success, those who were fortunate enough to catch the U.S. premier know what I mean when I say that you are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/81299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}