The Free Ones (2020)
- Original title
- Les Libres
- Directed by
- Nicolas Lévesque
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film follows several ex-convicts as they start new jobs at a sawmill in Quebec. It shows their daily routines and the challenges of rebuilding their lives after prison.
reflectiveobservationalhumanizinggroundedsubtlesomberpatientintimate
What happens
The Free Ones (French: Les Libres) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Nicolas Lévesque and released in 2020. An expansion of his 2015 short film Interview with a Free Man (Entrevue avec un homme libre), which was named by the Toronto International Film Festival as one of the Canada's Top Ten short films in 2015, the film is a portrait of several ex-convicts who are readjusting to life as free men with jobs at a sawmill in Roberval, Quebec. The film premiered at the 2020 Montreal International Documentary Festival. The film received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards, for Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Jean-Philippe Archibald) and Best Editing in a Documentary (Natacha Dufaux). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
Rural Route 5
A Hard Name (2009)
Finissant s (2013)
How to Prepare For Prison (2016)
Waseskun (2016)
Squat (film) (2017)
Mercenaire (2024)
Who Loves the Sun (2024)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.