Director: Blaine Thurier
Genre: Drama
This was my least favourite of the movies I saw at the film festival. I love gangster movies and that’s what this was supposed to be. A guy who used to be involved in “that shit” is painfully trying to look as though he’s enjoying his wife’s dinner party with her boss and his wife. So when he gets the opportunity to duck out to buy some wine, he runs into his cousin who is in serious debt with “the bad guys.” Honestly, I don’t know how many people would be able to pull off gangster and Canadian in the same film. Having to pay off your debts with colourful, Canadian money just doesn’t seem to work. Talking big and tough with a Canadian accent also does not seem to work.
The only thing that made this movie enjoyable to watch was the side story of the wife’s dinner party. As it turned out, her boss and his wife are into… well, orgies. They talk about it during the dinner, and make very strong suggestions to the wife while the husband is out getting the wine. Their conversation is quite comical.
It felt like the writer was trying too hard to put everything stereotypically gangster (money, sex, drugs) into a very short movie with a very limited plot line. The good gangster stories are the ones that extended over a period of time, not have everything come to light in one night. The only stereotype he was missing was the Italians. I probably would have enjoyed it more had there been some Italians in it.
