Guide de la petite vengeance (2006)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Jean-François Pouliot

Writer:

Ken Scott (writer)

Release Date:

17 November 2006 (Canada)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Black Comedy | Murder | Airport | Jail | Prison

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Marc Béland	...	Bernard
Gabriel Gascon	...	M. Vendôme
Michel Muller	...	Robert
Pascale Bussières	...	Sandrine
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marie-Christine Adam
Fajer Al-Kaisi
Patrick Baby	...	Vérificateur
Joseph Bellerose	...	Sergent-détective
Markita Boies	...	Secretaire de Vendôme
Alexandre Cadieux	...	Avocat 3
Sylvain Carrier	...	Nicholas
Neal de Albuquerque
Maurice Demers
Charles Dionne
Frederic Etherlinck
Paola Flores
Luc Gauthier
Guy Germain
Terry Haig	...	Avocat 1
André Lanthier
Vincent Leclerc	...	Avocat de Damaris
Marco Ledezma	...	Henry
Richard Ledoux
Garry S. Mailloux	...	Garde de sécurité #1
Alice Morel-Michaud	...	Lili
Vincent-Guillaume Otis
Pascal Petardi	...	Frederico
Norman Roy
Sasha Samar	...	Homme de main 1
Andrew Simms	...	Avocat 2
Janine Sutto	...	Cliente de la bijouterie
Martin Thibaudeau

Also Known As:

The Little Book of Revenge (Canada: English title)

Runtime:

Argentina:105 min | Germany:105 min (European Film Market)

Country:

Canada

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Company:

Max Films Productions

Well made, well acted but not a U.S. blockbuster.....

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

My friend dragged me, kicking and screaming, to see this movie as i'm so not a fan of Quebec-made movies. I was mistaken (in this case).

This flick is very well made, no questions about it. The writing is witty, the characters are believable (except the jeweller, who is beyond words), the production is all around perfect, so it's worth the ticket price.

Spoilers ahead.

Essentially, the story revolves around an accountant who decides to take back control of his life (and reconquer his wife)by exacting a little vengeance on his psychotic boss. He does so by setting up a break-in in his employer's store with the help of a weird assistant. The story has many surprising twists and discussing them here would spoil your fun.

End spoilers.

The movie was filmed (at least the exteriors) in Old Montreal but it does not really give a touristy view of Montreal. You'll see bits and pieces of two or three neighborhoods but no postcards there.

The cast is made of a few well known faces but their appearance does not detract from the story telling. The main character is played by an experienced actor which i never noticed before. He looks the part and shows a nice image of an intelligent man who let himself get devoured by a boring job and turned into a boring wimp. His turnaround is a feel-good moment.

Like many Quebec-made movies, it is well crafted but cannot compete with U.S. made blockbusters and does not even try (which does bug me a tad, but that's a debate for another place than IMDb). I'm not sure the movie will be released outside of Canada but the concept could easily be adapted to foreign markets, as the theme of revenge and crazy bosses is pretty well universal.