Cardboard City (2025)
- Original title
- Ville Jacques-Carton
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A poet refuses to sell his old house to a developer who wants to tear down the whole block. He then looks into the history of his neighborhood's annexation decades ago.
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What happens
Cardboard City (French: Ville Jacques-Carton) is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by André Forcier and Jean-Marc E. Roy, and released in 2025. The film stars poet Jean-Marc Desgent as a fictionalized version of himself, who refuses to sell his run-down home in Longueuil, Quebec, to a real estate developer (Pierre Curzi) who wants to demolish the entire block to build a new, generic modern suburban housing development, with Desgent subsequently exploring the real history of Longueuil's 1969 annexation of Ville Jacques-Cartier. The cast also includes Gaston Lepage, Charlotte Aubin, Sandrine Bisson, France Castel, Michèle Deslauriers and Mario Petrone as historic residents of the community in dramatic reenactments of the events. The film premiered on July 19, 2025, at the 29th Fantasia International Film Festival, before opening commercially on September 5. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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