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The Wise Guys (1972) Les smattes

Posted By: MirrorsMaker
The Wise Guys (1972) Les smattes

The Wise Guys (1972)
WEB-DL 720p | MKV | 1280x720 | x264 @ 4903 Kbps | 86 min | 3,10 Gb
Audio: French AAC 2.0 @ 253 Kbps | Subs: English hardcoded
Genre: Crime, Drama

During the summer of 1971, the Quebec government makes a move to shut down 7 dying villages on the Gaspé peninsula and relocate the population elsewhere. As locals watch their homes being destroyed by fire before leaving, Rejean Cardinal, one of the locals, decides he wants to stay there. He dreams of possessing all of the land for himself, his girlfriend Ginette and his brother Pierre. But things go suddenly wrong when he accidentally wounds a government agent while shooting at empty cans, and runs away like a criminal. Following that, an increasingly dreadful game of cat and mouse between him and the police ends in tragedy.
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Avec Les Smattes, le documentariste se lance vers la fiction même si cette histoire était indubitablement inspirée par le réel. Le film touche en effet à un cas sensible, celui du déplacement des populations en Gaspésie suite à la fermeture de plusieurs villages ordonnés par « les smattes » planificateurs économiques du gouvernement de Québec. Labrecque fait appel aux deux grandes vedettes masculines de l'époque, les frères Pilon, pour sa première incursion dans le long métrage et la direction d'acteurs.


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The Wise Guys (1972) Les smattes

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