The Furies (2025)

Original title

Les Furies

Directed by

Mélanie Charbonneau

Genre

comedy film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in a small Quebec town recruits an aging roller derby star to start a women's team. They fight to keep their place in the local arena when a men's hockey team threatens to take over.

energeticlightheartedunderdogfeel-goodsports-focusedupbeatdeterminedcommunity-drivencelebratory

What happens

The Furies (French: Les Furies) is a Canadian sports comedy film, directed by Mélanie Charbonneau and released in 2025. The first comedy film ever made in Quebec to focus on women's sports instead of men's, the film stars Gabrielle Côté as Mélissa, a young woman from Waterloo, Quebec, who enlists the help of retired roller derby star Yvette (France Castel) to set up a roller derby team after the women's sports programs are evicted from the local arena due to the imminent arrival of a new semi-professional men's ice hockey team. The cast also includes Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Juliette Gosselin, Aurélia Arandi-Longpré, Debbie Lynch-White, Nathalie Doummar, Sandrine Bisson, Antoine Bertrand, Antoine Pilon, Maxime de Cotret and Lyraël Dauphin in supporting roles. Côté was the writer of the film's screenplay. The film was shot in spring 2025 in Montreal and Waterloo. The film premiered theatrically on November 19, 2025, at Montreal's Place des Arts, in advance of its commercial release on November 28. France Castel received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Comedy Film at the 14th Canadian Screen Awards in 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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