Bluff | |
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Directed by |
Simon Olivier Fecteau Marc-André Lavoie |
Written by | Marc-André Lavoie Simon Olivier Fecteau |
Produced by | Marc-André Lavoie Jean-René Parteneau Simon Olivier Fecteau |
Starring |
Rémy Girard Pierre-François Legendre Julie Perreault Isabelle Blais Emmanuel Bilodeau Marie-Laurence Moreau |
Cinematography | Marc-André Lavoie |
Edited by | Simon-Olivier Fecteau Marc-André Lavoie |
Music by | Frédéric Bégin |
Production company | Orange Films |
Distributed by | Seville Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | French |
Bluff is a 2007 Canadian comedy film. It was directed, written and produced by Simon Olivier Fecteau and Marc-André Lavoie. [1]
The film premiered in August 2007 as the opening film of the Montreal World Film Festival, [2] before going into commercial release in September. [1]
Taking place almost entirely within a single apartment, the film opens with a building inspector ( Jean-Philippe Pearson) finding a shocking discovery in the basement to a building that is about to be destroyed. He contacts the landlord and, as the pair wait for a police officer ( Denis Trudel) to show up, the story of this discovery comes uncovered through vignettes depicting the various tenants of the apartment over the previous 15 years. [3]
Vignettes include the stories of Julien (Fecteau), a guy nervously preparing for a job interview with the assistance of his girlfriend (Ève Duranceau); Michel ( Alexis Martin and Josée ( Isabelle Blais), a couple desperately searching the apartment for a lost painting after learning that it might be worth over $100,000; Nico ( Emmanuel Bilodeau) and Céline (Julie Perreault), a couple who have invited Serge ( David La Haye) over for a ménage à trois; Patrice ( Marc Messier) and Chuck (Nicolas Canuel), a pair of bumbling crooks who attempt to rob the landlord; and Georges ( Rémy Girard), an older man who challenges his daughter Julie's (Marie-Laurence Moreau) boyfriend Sébastien (Pierre-François Legendre) to a boxing match in an attempt to prove his claim, believed by absolutely nobody he knows, that he was once a championship boxer. [3]
The cast also includes Gilbert Sicotte and Raymond Bouchard.
Bluff was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 28th Genie Awards. [4] Bilodeau received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 10th Jutra Awards in 2008. [5]