Underplayed Gems

May God Bless America (2006)

May God Bless America poster
Original title
Que dieu bénisse l'Amérique
Directed by
Robert Morin
Genre
thriller, drama
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 45m
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A police inspector in a Quebec suburb investigates the murders of sex offenders on September 11, 2001. Meanwhile, almost everyone around him remains distracted by their own trivial concerns and pays no attention to the terrorist attacks in New York.

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What happens

May God Bless America (French: Que Dieu bénisse l'Amérique) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Robert Morin and released in 2006. A critique of suburban values and lifestyles, the film stars Gildor Roy as Maurice Ménard, a police inspector in Laval, Quebec who is investigating a spate of murders of suspected sex offenders on September 11, 2001, in a community that is largely wrapped up in its own petty dramas with virtually everybody remaining oblivious to or unconcerned about the concurrent September 11 attacks in New York City. The cast also includes Normand D'Amour, René-Daniel Dubois, Patrice Dussault, Gaston Lepage, Sylvie Léonard, Sylvain Marcel, Dominique Quesnel, Jean-Guy Bouchard and Benoît Rousseau. Morin described the film as having been inspired in part by Albert Camus's novel The Stranger, with themes around the danger of individuality taken to extremes. The film premiered on February 17, 2006 at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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