2019 ‘Le meilleur pays du monde’ Directed by Ky Nam Le Duc
In a province not so distant from ours, now controlled by a far-right government, the borders are closed and immigrants, now under threat, are desperate to get out. A Haitian woman hands over her young son to a thirty-something Quebec man before fleeing. With help from a Vietnamese former refugee, they try to solve the mystery.
Mickaël Gouin Sean Lu Junior Jean-Baptiste Alice Tran Schelby Jean-Baptiste Jorge Martinez Colorado Marco Ledezma Marc Beaupré Louis Sincennes Marc Arseno Ted Pluviose François Doré Jeanne Ostiguy Geneviève Schmidt Jonathan Gagnon Pascale Renaud-Hébert André Robillard Alex Ngo Sophie Bédard Marcotte Isabelle Miquelon Gabriel Brown Louise Bombardier Guillaume Laurin Roxane Loumède Ricardo Lamour Sara Guerrero Fuentes Nadia Silva Hurtado Omar Alexis Ramos Léane Labrèche-Dor Show All…
Canada, Kanata
CanadaPG
Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montreal)
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UKPG
France12
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"Through a blistering and frozen Quebec winter The Greatest Country In The World projects the feeling of gathering around a flickering flame to hear a story. While the wind howls and ice bites at your skin, director Ky Nam Le Duc guides you slowly through the dark and, while never shielding you from the honesty of the bleakness, you’ll still emerge from the otherside with memories of a small and mighty flame dancing amid the cold.
On paper the film - which is the first primarily French language feature to play at Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival in its 24 year history - is a mystery set amid a politically tumultuous backdrop. In the aftermath of a reactionary and…
C'est très froid et lent, mais derrière tout ça il y a quelque chose d'à la fois beau et effrayant.
Un beau drame d'immigrants et une anticipation lucide du drame qui attend ceux-ci dans un futur caquiste, le film met en scène des Vietnamiens qui jamais ne semblent aussi clichés que le protagoniste québécois, qui, lui, est exactement la chiffe molle à laquelle on s'attendrait.
Interesting premise and character dynamic, but the slow pace isn't engaging enough to complement this story, there's a little bit of missed opportunity with the emotional weight between the 3 leads, it's a very bleak and silent ambiance until the end. But it's an interesting exploration especially coming from a vietnamese Montrealer myself.
