2009 · drama
Polytechnique
Directed by Denis Villeneuve1h 17m2009
A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.
Our read: Polytechnique (2009) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, extreme drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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