Polytechnique

film by Villeneuve [2009]

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Polytechnique is a 2009 Canadian film directed by Denis Villeneuve. The film is a dramatization of a real-life massacre that occurred at the École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989, where 14 women were killed. The movie is described as disturbing and affecting, exploring the tragic events and their impact. Villeneuve is known for his visually inventive films that often deal with themes of trauma and identity.12

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…Floor (2008), and followed with Polytechnique (2009), a disturbing and affecting dramatization of a real-life massacre of 14 women that had happened at a Montreal university in 1989. Incendies (2010), adapted from a play by Wajdi Mouawad, uses a story of Montreal twins fulfilling their late mother’s instructions to seek…
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…Floor (2008), and followed with Polytechnique (2009), a disturbing and affecting dramatization of a real-life massacre of 14 women that had happened at a Montreal university in 1989. Incendies (2010), adapted from a play by Wajdi Mouawad, uses a story of Montreal twins fulfilling their late mother’s instructions to seek…
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