The Pig's Law
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.
Stéphane Brousseau, 27, is a compulsive gambler. After the bank issues an ultimatum threatening to seize the pig farm she inherited from her father, she attempts to make big bucks by selling a crop of marijuana that two city criminals planted on her land.
Érik Canuel
Érik Canuel is a Québécois filmmaker and screenwriter. Born in Montreal, he is the son of actor Yvan Canuel and actress Lucille Papineau. A true movie buff accross all genre, he is interested in films that innovate and push the boundaries of cinema. He is also a huge comic book fan, with a particular affection for the worlds of Frank Miller and Neil Gaiman. In 2006, he shattered all records with the bilingual action comedy Bon Cop, Bad Cop, which grossed $12 million at the Canadien box office, including more than $9 million in Quebec — an unprecedented feat. The film became the biggest commercial success in the history of Quebec cinema.
Photo: Attila Dory | Collections de la Cinémathèque québécoise
