Detour (2009)

Original title

Détour

Directed by

Sylvain Guy

Genre

thriller

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

14A

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man travels to Quebec for a business meeting. He meets a woman who wants to escape her violent partner.

suspensefultensecharacter-drivenbleakgrittyemotionally chargedslow-burn

What happens

Detour (French: Détour) is a Canadian thriller film, directed by Sylvain Guy and released in 2009. The film stars Luc Picard as Léo Huff, an assistant to a wealthy businesswoman who is travelling to Le Bic, Quebec to attend a meeting on his employer's proposal to build a tourist attraction in Bic National Park. There he meets Lou (Isabelle Guérard), a young woman who needs his help liberating herself from her abusive boyfriend Roch (Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge). The film opened commercially on September 18, 2009. Guérard received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Actress at the 12th Jutra Awards in 2010. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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