Vile & Miserable (2024)

Original title

Vil & Misérable

Directed by

Jean-François Leblanc

Genre

comedy film, speculative fiction film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 55m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A misanthropic demon in human form runs a used bookstore inside a car dealership. He is forced to take on a new assistant, and together they go after a shipment of rare books stolen by the Mafia.

quirkyunderstatedodd-coupledeadpanurban fantasyoffbeatmildly anarchicslow-burn

What happens

Vile & Miserable (French: Vil & Misérable) is a Canadian fantasy comedy film, directed by Jean-François Leblanc and released in 2024. An adaptation of the graphic novel by Samuel Cantin, the film stars Fabien Cloutier as Lucien Vil, a misanthropic demon who has been living on earth for 350 years running a used bookstore inside a car dealership; one day, dealership owner Sylvie (Chantal Fontaine) hires Daniel Lamontagne (Pier-Luc Funk) as a new assistant for Lucien against his wishes, with the two developing an unlikely friendship as they set out to recover a shipment of rare books stolen by the Mafia from a shipping container at the Port of Montreal. The cast also includes Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Alexis Martin, Éric Robidoux, Rodley Pitt, Florence Blain Mbaye, Sébastien Leblanc, Bernard Fortin, Anne Boulianne, Guillaume Girard, Robert Ung and Justin Leyrolles-Bouchard in supporting roles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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