Les affamés (The Ravenous)
(Canada, 96
min.)
Written and directed by Robin Aubert
Starring:
Marc-André Grondin, Monia Chokri, Charlotte St-Martin, Micheline Lanctôt,
Brigitte Poupart, Marie-Ginette Guay, Robert Brouillette
Some call it home and others call it cottage country, but
what often draws one to the rural regions of Canada is the silence. The quiet
and leafy countryside can be an idyllic reminder of a way of life that seems
forgotten in the fast-paced and impersonal cities to which everyone flocks.
There’s something truly beautiful, however, about sitting back and watching the
sunset over grassy plains rather than through tightly packed condos, smelling pine-scented
air rather than carcinogenic smog, or being in a neighbourhood where people
wave rather than accuse randomly you of offending them. The sound of silence
rather than the din of traffic. This image of “Canada” doesn’t really fit the
cultural imagination anymore, but it hasn’t died away.