Barbarians of the Bay (2019)

Original title

Les Barbares de La Malbaie

Directed by

Vincent Biron

Genre

comedy drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 55m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A failed NHL player in Quebec gets injured before a big amateur tournament. He asks his hockey-loving cousin to drive him to the championship so he can try to win back his former glory.

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What happens

Barbarians of the Bay (French: Les Barbares de La Malbaie) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Vincent Biron and released in 2019. The film stars Philippe-Audrey Larrue-Saint-Jacques as Yves, a hockey player who failed at the National Hockey League level and has been reduced to playing amateur hockey in La Malbaie, Quebec. After being sidelined by an injury that has prevented him from playing in the national championship tournament in Thunder Bay, Ontario, he enlists his younger cousin Jean-Philippe (Justin Leyrolles-Bouchard), who also loves hockey but aspires to be a sports agent rather than a player, to drive him on a road trip to the tournament in an attempt to reclaim his rightful glory on the ice. According to Biron, the film was made with the intention of exploring the life trajectory of the many hockey players who don't make it to the big leagues rather than the relatively few who do. The film held an advance screening event in Montreal on November 18, 2019 before opening in theatres on November 22. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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