VIFF 2015: A good feel for place and people animates Le Dep

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      Le Dep (Canada)  

      A wonderful feel for place and people animates this very simply structured tale of rural northern Quebec, centring on the recent return of a young woman (the luminous Eve Ringuette) to her mostly Innu community. With Lydia working part-time in her dad’s convenience store, things seem calm enough until a robber shows up. When she recognizes him, it turns into a tense standoff that’s as well written and acted as a substantial two-handed play. (Great use of confined spaces, as well.)

      But as the movie continues, it becomes increasingly beholden to gun-as-dramatic-tool and loses the impressionistic qualities that make the beginning so evocative. Writer-director Sonia Boileau is one to watch, though.

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