The Wolves (2015)

Original title

Les loups

Directed by

Sophie Deraspe

Genre

drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

G

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman from Montreal moves to a small island community during the seal hunt. Her presence disturbs the local balance because she is an outsider.

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What happens

The Wolves (French: Les Loups) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sophie Deraspe and released in 2014. Set in Grande-Entrée on the Magdalen Islands of Quebec, the film stars Evelyne Brochu as Élie, a woman who arrives from Montreal during the annual seal hunt and upsets the balance of the community due to her status as an outsider. The cast also includes Louise Portal, Benoît Gouin, Gilbert Sicotte, Cindy-Mae Arsenault, Augustin Legrand, Patrice Bissonnette, Martin Dubreuil, Stéphane Gagnon, Ungalaaq Avingaq and Marc-André Leblanc. The film premiered in the Borsos Competition program at the 2014 Whistler Film Festival, and went into commercial release in Quebec in February 2015. It also received international screenings at the Cannes Film Market, and at the 2015 Torino Film Festival, where it was the winner of the FIPRESCI Prize. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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