• Director: Denis Villeneuve
  • Release Year: 2009
  • Production Country: Canada
  • Language: French
  • Run Time: 77 minutes

Polytechnique

Description

Two students are haunted by their memories of the massacre of fourteen women at the École Polytechnique, an engineering school in Montreal: Jean-François, because he left the classroom with the other men when the gunman ordered them to, and Valérie, who was left behind with the other female classmates.

Themes

Crime, Gender roles, Women's history, Massacres, Alienation and exclusion, École Polytechnique massacre (1989), Cinema of Quebec, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Mental illness