LES PIRES WILL CLOSE THE 2022 FESTIVAL

Recipient of the Diamond Valois for best film at the 2022 Angoulême Festival and the Un certain regard Prize at the 2022 Cannes Festival, the French film Les Pires, by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret will have its Quebec premiere on November 3, 2022, at the Théâtre du cuivre in Rouyn-Noranda.

This film, which required long immersion work on the part of the directors as well as meeting with hundreds of children, features a film shoot in Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the north of France. During the casting, four teenagers, Lily, Ryan, Maylis, and Jessy are chosen to play in the film. Everyone is astonished in the neighbourhood: why did they only take “the worst”?

Having both worked in casting and coaching children for the cinema, Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret were inspired by their own experience in the field to create this film that skilfully navigates between reality and fiction. The directors explain their approach: “We believe the film starts with a raw, almost documentary feel, and then gradually opens up the field to fiction, as if it were going from life to film. We wanted the film, through its rhythm and movement, to gradually develop in emotion, scope, and transcend the framework of this story, we hope, to touch on the universal.”