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Title: Polytechnique (2009)
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| Maxim Gaudette | ... | The Killer | |
| Sébastien Huberdeau | ... | Jean-François | |
| Karine Vanasse | ... | Valérie | |
| Martin Watier | ... | Jean-François (voice) | |
| Evelyne Brochu | ... | Stéphanie | |
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Johanne-Marie Tremblay | ... | Jean-François' Mother |
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Natalie Hamel-Roy | ... | Jean-François' Mother (voice) (as Nathalie Hamel-Roy) |
| Pierre-Yves Cardinal | ... | Éric | |
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Pierre Leblanc | ... | Mr. Martineau |
| Francesca Barcenas | ... | Injured Student at Copier | |
| Eve Duranceau | ... | Student with the Ear Injury | |
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Mathieu Ledoux | ... | Injured Student |
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Adam Kosh | ... | Killer's Roommate |
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Larissa Corriveau | ... | Killer's Neighboor |
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Manon Lapointe | ... | Killer's Mother |
-On December 6, 1989, a lone gunman walked into Montréal's École Polytechnique (in Canada), a post-secondary institution focusing primarily in engineering, and began a shooting massacre. This event and its aftermath are shown from the perspective of three people. The first is the shooter himself, who blamed the problems in his life on who he considered feminists, such as female engineering students, who were his primary targets. This event was the culmination of a seven year plan, which had a self-defined end. The second is female mechanical engineering student Valérie, who earlier that day had an interview for her dream internship, working on an aerospace project. The interview process itself was a disturbing one for her in the stereotypical view by the male interviewer, who did not believe that females could work in the business and still have aspirations to have a family. And the third is Jean-François, Valérie's friend and fellow mechanical engineering student, who was one of the ... Written by Huggo
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I hadn't planned on seeing this film but was invited by a friend. Thank yous came out of my mouth the moment we stepped out of the theater; the only words which managed to escape my rattled mind.
This is a film which I believe is a must see. Brutal and raw, it breaks a real story into a few basic elements and lets the events speak for themselves. The film depicts the sad events of this day in 1989 with such realism that the viewer feels himself part of the drama, a witness to the violence. Filmed in black and white, and with very similar stylistic elements to Gus Van Sant's Elephant, few words are needed for the director to properly convey the desired range of emotions which take place in the movie.
I must add that there were shots of such beauty which contrasted the ugliness of the shooting in such a moving way that while trying to old back tears at one point, I thought to myself "Life is a wonderful gift.." I have never written a review for this site before, and enjoy a great variety of films: I walked out of the silent, full theater, packed with viewers just as shell shocked as I, thinking that this might have been the most gut wrenching movie experience of my life.
Do see