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Straight to the heart Not submitted for classification (R)

Original Title: En plein cœur

Country of Origin: Quebec (Canada) (2008)
French with English Subtitles - 106 minutes
Genre: Drama
Distributor: K-Films Amérique

Directed by Stéphane Géhami

Starring   Pierre Rivard, Keven Noël, Julie Deslauriers, Keven Noël

English Canadian Premiere

Benoit, 32, and Jimmy, 14, are car thieves. The first expresses his discontentment in his inability to form a lasting attachment in his love life, and in his sexual appetite. The other, without a father on the scene, has to look after his depressive mother. Given their respective situations "the two are both attracted to one another and push each other away, in a long faltering waltz." (Le Soleil)

Géhami's nervous camera injects a dose of adrenaline that gives the film certain urgency, sincerity and a palpable emotional charge. Pierre Rivard with his "look at once laughing and tragic" (Géhami) and Kevin Noel, tough on the outside tender on the inside, strike straight to the heart of the viewer, with their touching humanity.

Awards

2008 Vancouver International Film Festival Canadian Images
2008 Montreal World Film Festival World Competition

Straight to the heart

Friday, March 27, 2009
at 7:00PM

Next Show

Showing at 9:30PM

Off And Running

(2008 - 93 min.)
Rated 14A