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The Noise of Engines (2021)

The Noise of Engines poster
Original title
Le bruit des moteurs
Directed by
Philippe Grégoire
Genre
drama film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 19m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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An instructor at the Canada Border Services Agency gets suspended after an unverified sexual assault allegation. He goes back to his hometown and becomes friends with an Icelandic drag racer while police investigate pornographic graffiti in the area.

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What happens

The Noise of Engines (French: Le bruit des moteurs) is a 2021 Canadian drama film, written, produced, and directed by Philippe Grégoire. The film stars Robert Naylor as Alexandre, a Canada Border Services Agency instructor who returns to his hometown after being suspended from work following an unverified sexual assault allegation, who befriends Icelandic drag racer Aðalbjörg (Tanja Björk) while under surveillance by the police because of a spate of pornographic graffiti in the town. The cast also includes Alexandrine Agostini, Marc Beaupré, Arnmundur Ernst Björnsson, Huguette Chevalier, Patrice Dussault, Marie-Thérèse Fortin, Maxime Genois, Vial Grégoire, Ingi Hrafn Hilmarsson, Nadia Kessiby, Marc Larrivée, Gabrielle Lessard, Virginie Ouellet, Naïla Rabel and Charles Voyer. The film was inspired in part by Grégoire's own background as a Canada Border Services Agency employee, and was shot primarily in Grégoire's hometown of Napierville, Quebec but also partly in Iceland. The film premiered at the 69th San Sebastián International Film Festival on September 19, 2021. It had its Canadian premiere at the 2021 Festival du nouveau cinéma. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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