Blind Trust
Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
The armored truck heist organized by Théo and his crew goes awry when one of the guards gets locked inside the truck, and there’s no way to get him out. So begins a long standoff.
Yves Simoneau
Yves Simoneau is a Quebec director, screenwriter, producer and editor, born in Quebec City. He garnered multiple Genie Awards nomination for his film Intimate Power (Pouvoir intime), including Best direction and Best scenario with Pierre Curzi. His 1987 film In the Shadow of the Wind (Les fous de Bassan) was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.
Photo: Pierre Pelletier, Collections de la Cinémathèque québécoise
