WARS
GUERRES
Director
Nicolas Roy
Cast
Eleonore Loiselle, David La Haye
Producer
1976 productions, Nicolas Comeau
Screenwriter
Cynthia Tremblay
Emma has just turned 20. To follow in her father's footsteps and to fill the existential abyss that inhabits her, she enlists in the army. Disciplined, competitive, proud; she adheres to the military ideology and the increasingly repressive rules to which she is subjected. Paradoxically, desire arises between her and her superior, Sergeant Richard.
CINEMANIA’s opinion :
Following the noteworthy IT IS NOTHING and NIGHT FOR DAYS, the filmmaker Nicolas Roy offers up WARS, a difficult but vital work on power relationships and incommunicability. The young actress Eleonore Loiselle that we discovered last year in the GODDESS OF THE FIREFLIES is intensely magnetic, at once vulnerable and stoic. Her character, a young soldier, admirably holds her own with David La Haye who for his part delivers a blood-curdling performance in the role of Sargent Richard. Roy’s uncluttered screenplay is cutting and succeeds perfectly in depicting the anxiety-producing nature of the ties that bind these two broken beings. WARS, obsessively chilling, is one of those films that one doesn’t easily forget.
⇢ Movie in competition for the "Visages de la Francophonie".
⇢ Following its presentation at CINEMANIA, the film will be available on Crave between November 21st and December 1st.
CINEMANIA’s opinion :
Following the noteworthy IT IS NOTHING and NIGHT FOR DAYS, the filmmaker Nicolas Roy offers up WARS, a difficult but vital work on power relationships and incommunicability. The young actress Eleonore Loiselle that we discovered last year in the GODDESS OF THE FIREFLIES is intensely magnetic, at once vulnerable and stoic. Her character, a young soldier, admirably holds her own with David La Haye who for his part delivers a blood-curdling performance in the role of Sargent Richard. Roy’s uncluttered screenplay is cutting and succeeds perfectly in depicting the anxiety-producing nature of the ties that bind these two broken beings. WARS, obsessively chilling, is one of those films that one doesn’t easily forget.
⇢ Movie in competition for the "Visages de la Francophonie".
⇢ Following its presentation at CINEMANIA, the film will be available on Crave between November 21st and December 1st.
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