trailer break: ‘Polytechnique’Take a break from work: watch a trailer... This week, the Toronto Film Critics Association named this film, by Denis Villeneuve, the best Canadian film of 2009. It’s about the mass shooting at the Montreal Polytechnique school in 1989 in which the shooter targeted women studying to be engineers, since he believed that feminism had ruined his life and he wanted to kill feminists. Looks like a good choice for my new Canadian coverage... Polytechnique is now available on Region 1 DVD from Amazon.ca support
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posted by LaSargenta (Fri Jan 15 10, 1:03PM)
Great, I peek back here to take a 5 minute break and this is what I get to see. You know, even in 2000 this was still being talked about by lots of female engineering students in the US.
Certainly a good trailer.
Makes my heart rate rise and my gut hurt.
I'm going to go away now.
posted by Accounting Ninja (Fri Jan 15 10, 1:59PM)
I only hope that movie doesn't spend far too much time in HIS head, making the movie about him and not the women gunned down.
posted by LaSargenta (Fri Jan 15 10, 5:39PM)
Alphabetically by last name:
Genevive Bergeron, 21 yrs. old
Helne Colgan, 23
Nathalie Croteau, 23
Barbara Daigneault, 22
Anne-Marie Edward, 21
Maud Haviernick, 29
Maryse Laganire, 25
Maryse Leclair, 23
Anne-Marie Lemay, 22
Sonia Pelletier, 28
Michle Richard, 21
Annie Sainte-Arneault, 23
Annie Turcotte, 21
Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz, 31
And, Accounting Ninja, I've heard that it doesn't go inside his head.
posted by Chris Beaubien (Sat Jan 16 10, 5:39AM)
The film is divided in three parts. It begins with the killer - who is the most loathsome character I have seen in a movie throughout 2009 - and then we focus individually on two surviving victims (a heroic young man and a brave young woman) who process the tragedy in very different ways.
I'm glad the Toronto Film Critics Association awarded Polytechnique. It was one of the most compelling films I saw in a theatre last year, which was open for just one week. I revisited it on DVD and I was still shaken by its power.