The Demons is one of the best flicks of the year
The Demons
(Canada)
The horrors in this stunning feature from Philippe Lesage are mostly (mostly…) implicit, largely being pulled from the air around Félix, a 10-year-old haunted like any sensitive kid by his dawning apprehension of a world much less secure than he thought.
It’s early summer in a deceptively sunny Montreal suburb, probably in the late ’80s (period is more of a dimension here, like an unreliable memory), with Lesage’s Steadicam gliding inquisitively through the lives of Félix’s friends, usually with a hint of something sinister just out of frame, as if Robert Altman had attempted a Québécois rehash of It Follows.
If The Demons, easily one of the best Canadian films of the year, doesn’t get a proper opening in Vancouver, then I fucking give up.
Thursday (December 3); Friday (December 4).
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