A moody, clenched drama that works its tension so deep you may find your palms marked with the indentations of your fingernails by the end, “Les Nôtres” is the deeply uneasy but compelling second film from director Jeanne Leblanc (“Isla Blanca”). Illuminated by a powerfully self-possessed performance by Émilie Bierre as the 13-year-old whose pregnancy will have dire consequences for all except the pedophile responsible, this is an enraging film astringent enough to peel the paint from the façade of virtue propped up by the small-town Quebecois community in which it takes place.
Pretty, popular Magalie (Bierre) and her little brother are being raised by her mother Isabelle (Marianne Farley) after her father died in an industrial tragedy for which the town of Sainte-Adeline is still in mourning. Isabelle is helped out by best friend Chantale, who happens to be married to the mayor and Isabelle’s employer, Jean-Marc...
Pretty, popular Magalie (Bierre) and her little brother are being raised by her mother Isabelle (Marianne Farley) after her father died in an industrial tragedy for which the town of Sainte-Adeline is still in mourning. Isabelle is helped out by best friend Chantale, who happens to be married to the mayor and Isabelle’s employer, Jean-Marc...
- 6/19/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Jeanne Leblanc’s chilly Canadian feature “Les Nôtres” . But an intriguing ensemble of tormented individuals — a flinty teenage girl, her widowed mother, a beloved but insidious mayor, his repressed wife, and more — remain fixed behind a pane of glass throughout, with Leblanc maintaining a disconcerting distance from the true darkness roiling beneath a rotten Quebec town plagued by murmurs of sexual abuse and casual racism. Expertly composed within an inch of its life, the film only brushes against these topics, leaving the door open to bigger ideas left unexplored.
For all its measured composure (by cinematographer Tobie Marier-Robitaille), the film’s most sublime shot is its opening one, framing the naked back of the blonde-headed teen Magalie (Émilie Bierre), splayed across a rumpled bedspread. Something horrible is being telegraphed. In present day, but likely not long beyond this flash to the past, she’s widely regarded as one of the...
For all its measured composure (by cinematographer Tobie Marier-Robitaille), the film’s most sublime shot is its opening one, framing the naked back of the blonde-headed teen Magalie (Émilie Bierre), splayed across a rumpled bedspread. Something horrible is being telegraphed. In present day, but likely not long beyond this flash to the past, she’s widely regarded as one of the...
- 6/18/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
It takes a village. That’s what close, tight-knit communities like Sainte-Adeline, Quebec, say when asked how they can confront and conquer tough circumstances. With that sense of togetherness, however, comes a cliquish sensibility of superiority. They survive because they have each other. They survive because they’re vigilant and always watching to see where and when their help is required to pick someone up. It’s how they got through a horrible construction-site tragedy years prior that claimed too many friends and families’ lives. They picked up the slack, opened their homes, and came out the other side. It’s also how they vindictively turned thirteen-year-old Magalie Jodoin’s (Emilie Bierre) life upside-down upon discovering she was too far along with an unplanned pregnancy to terminate.
Director Jeanne Leblanc and co-writer Judith Baribeau pull no punches in portraying the malicious underbelly of the town at the center of Les nôtres.
Director Jeanne Leblanc and co-writer Judith Baribeau pull no punches in portraying the malicious underbelly of the town at the center of Les nôtres.
- 6/16/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Les NÔTRES Oscilloscope Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Jeanne Leblanc Writer: Judith Baribeau Cast: Emilie Bierre, Marianne Farley, Judith Baribeau, Paul Doucet Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 5/29/21 Opens: June 18, 2021 Could this be another denunciation of suburban life? Yes it could , but it is […]
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- 6/14/2021
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
"What are you hiding from me?" Oscope Labs has released a new US trailer for an indie "social suspense" film titled Les Nôtres, the second feature from Quebecois filmmaker Jeanne Leblanc. The film originally premiered at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma Festival, and won Best Narrative Feature at the Santa Fe Film Festival last year. Our Own is about 13-year-old Magalie, who will have no choice but to take back the reins of her own life. Against all odds. Played by Emilie Bierre, Magalie is a popular blonde teen who's keeping a shocking secret: she's pregnant. But when she refuses to identify the real father, suspicions among the townsfolk come to a boiling point and the layers of a carefully maintained social varnish eventually crack. It "astutely unearths the racism that lurks under the surface of seemingly-woke white suburbia." Also with Marianne Farley, Judith Baribeau, and Paul Doucet. A riveting discovery...
- 5/19/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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