Bernard Assiniwi

First Nations documentary

In this French Canadian film, when the provincial government tries to move two young farmers from their land to make way for development, the two fight back, accidentally killing a policeman and becoming outlaws in the process.

Les mésaventures de Léo, la veille de Noël. Une tempête de neige s'abat sur Montréal. «Si j'ai adopté le ton de la comédie, c'est beaucoup par goût personnel, mais un peu aussi par souci de prendre du recul par rapport au film. Le genre comique vous impose beaucoup de simplicité dans la ligne générale du film ; cette simplicité, en retour, vous permet une grande complexité dans le détail.

Summoned by his bosses to broadcast only neutral information, Jean, a reporter, leaves town with his friend to go and collect testimonies from simple people, in the heart of the Laurentians, and reach out to them and outside society at genuine freedom, happiness. The departure is joyous, but the isolation in which they confine themselves does not bring either of them the results they expected. The adventure ends in failure. Would it be an illusion to believe that one can escape the community to which one belongs?