7 Days (2010)
"Les 7 jours du talion" (original title)

A doctor seeks revenge by kidnapping, torturing and killing the man who raped and murdered his young daughter.

Director:

Daniel Grou

Writers:

Patrick Senécal (adaptation), Patrick Senécal (novel)

Stars:

Claude Legault, Rémy Girard, Martin Dubreuil

9 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Claude Legault	...	Bruno Hamel
Rémy Girard	...	Hervé Mercure
Martin Dubreuil	...	Anthony Lemaire
Fanny Mallette	...	Sylvie Bérubé
Rose-Marie Coallier	...	Jasmine Hamel
Alexandre Goyette	...	Boisvert
Dominique Quesnel	...	Maryse Pleau
Pascale Delhaes	...	Diane Masson
Pascal Contamine	...	Morin
Daniel Desputeau	...	Gilles Médecin
Maxime Bessette	...	Jeune rocker
Valérie Gervais-Lillo	...	Caissière essence
Isabelle Page	...	Lectrice de nouvelles (as Isabelle Pagé)
Maxime Allard	...	Journaliste Fafard
Garry Gagnon	...	Caméraman Fafard

Storyline

Bruno Hamel is a thirty eight year old surgeon. He lives in Drummondville with his wife Sylvie, and their eight year-old daughter Jasmine. Like many happy people, he is leading an uneventful life until a beautiful fall afternoon, when his daughter is raped and murdered. From then on, the world of the Hamel family collapses. When the murderer is arrested, a terrible project germinates in Bruno's darkened mind. He plans to capture the "monster" and make him pay for his crime. The day the murderer appears in Court, Hamel, who had prepared his plan in great detail, kidnaps the monster and later sends the police a brief message stating that the rapist and murderer of his daughter was going to be tortured for 7 days and then executed. Once this task accomplished, he will then give himself up.

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Plot Keywords:

revenge | eight year old | police | jasmine | surgeon | 

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Taglines:

Justice is Blind. So is Vengeance.

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

Canada

Language:

French English

Release Date:

12 November 2010 (Mexico)

Also Known As:

7 Days

Filming Locations:

Québec, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

CAD 3,400,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Go Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min 111 min (Québec)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

There is no music in the entire movie, not even during the end credits.

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Goofs

Speaking as a physician, the blow to the perpetrator's right femur, just above his knee joint was sufficient to fracture the femur. Typically a crush injury or other damaging injury to a person's lower extremities causes a fatal shock. In war these injuries are quickly treated with a blood substitute until the person can be moved into a better care facility. In earlier war like WWII, many lives were salvaged that had been lost before because of shock and death. There, they were saved with the venous infusion of plasma. In later conflicts another infusion might be chosen on a battlefield such as Dextran which is the preferred blood volume expander. For a person to survive (as shown in the film) without this regimen is very unlikely. He later does start intravenous infusion, after using the chain to traumatize the victim, yet the victim lived. All are inconsistent with additional sustained life.

User Reviews

Even more disturbing than I expected

Just finished seeing Les 7 jours du talion and I have to admit that words cannot begin to describe how that movie will affect you. The acting is superb, it is very much a "huis-clos" as we call it in French, a duel of actors in an enclosed space where no one else can see them.

I'm not a fan of torture porn, I've never seen the Saw and Hostel movies as they aren't my cup of tea personally. Warning here that the violence, though rare, is very graphic and realistic. But the characters are very convincing, especially in what they DON'T say aloud. And I agree with the choice not to add a soundtrack to that movie, it would detract from the tension in it.

I know that I normally buy a DVD of a really outstanding movie, but I'll pass on this one, though it is outstanding. It's just that the dark side of human nature does not always bear repeat contemplation.