Sébastien Rose : 2012
Before My Heart Falls
Sixteen-year-old Sarah has an unusual life. In a strange, marginal ménage à trois with her contemporary Louis and the older Ji-Guy, she fills her days with petty crime. During the day she hangs around with Louis by motorways, where she deceives and robs innocent people offering a lift. One day things go wrong when a driver dies of a heart attack during a robbery attempt. Sarah can't stop thinking about the dead man and goes looking for the wife he left behind. In her, she finally finds something of the security and friendship she had unconsciously been seeking for so long. But her alternative family doesn't just let her go. Shot in very realistic images, the story of this adolescent girl as she grows up and becomes conscious, is set against the sombre background of grey motorways and decaying industrial sites. A brutal portrait of Québec society, with its almost surreal vision of marginality, the film screened at Québec City Film Festival 2012, and premiered internationally at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013.
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