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By Stéphane LAFLEUR

Black comedy - Completed 2011

Benoit and Maryse: a brother and sister with seemingly normal lives. Everything is changed by a series of coincidences... and the arrival of a man claiming to come from the future.

- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- Black comedy
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Budget
- 3 - 5 M$
- Duration
- 88 mn
- Director(s)
- Stéphane LAFLEUR
- Writer(s)
- Stéphane LAFLEUR
- Cast
- Francis LA HAYE, Fanny MALLETTE, Michel DAIGLE, Sylvain MARCEL
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-B1E8-0000-K-0000-0000-E
- EIDR
- 10.5240/6B7F-0666-69FF-D9BB-20AA-G
- Producer(s)
- Luc DÉRY (micro_scope), Kim MCCRAW (micro_scope)
- Synopsis
- Maryse and her husband are desperate to sell a backhoe sitting abandoned in their suburban yard. Her brother, Benoit, is trapped in endless adolescence, sharing their childhood home with their invalid father. Benoit is enamoured with a single mom named Nathalie, and he’s hoping to finally grow up by living with her… but Nathalie’s son does not approve. A serious accident at the factory where Maryse works, a strange series of coincidences, and the arrival of a Man claiming to come from the future launch Maryse and Benoit on a life-changing road trip.
  Following up his acclaimed feature film Continental, a film without guns, filmmaker Stéphane Lafleur once again brings us an ensemble of compelling characters, in a story where the ordinary and the fantastic collide.