''Le Dep'' is a 2015 Canadian psychological drama film directed by
Sonia Boileau
Sonia Boileau is a Canadian First Nations filmmaker belonging to the Mohawk Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
Biography
Sonia Bonspille-Boileau was raised between Oka, where her French-Canadian father hails from, and Kanesatake, the comm ...
. The film tells the story of a young Innu woman (played by
Ève Ringuette) who is held at gunpoint one night while working at a convenience store in a small
First Nations community in rural
Quebec.
Set in a fictional
Innu
The Innu / Ilnu ("man", "person") or Innut / Innuat / Ilnuatsh ("people"), formerly called Montagnais from the French colonial period ( French for "mountain people", English pronunciation: ), are the Indigenous inhabitants of territory in the ...
community,
the film's dialogue is mostly in French, with some
Innu-aimun
Innu-aimun or Montagnais is an Algonquian language spoken by over 10,000 Innu in Labrador and Quebec in Eastern Canada. It is a member of the Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi dialect continuum and is spoken in various dialects depending on the comm ...
. ''Le Dep'' is the first First Nations production of
Telefilm Canada's Micro-Budget program. The film's world premiere was at the 2015
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( cs, Mezinárodnà filmový festival Karlovy Vary) is a film festival held annually in July in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become ...
, following which the film played various festivals in Canada, the United States, and United Kingdom and had a theatrical run in Montreal.
Cast
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Eve Ringuette
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Charles Buckell-Robertson
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Yan England
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Marco Collin
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Robert-Pierre Côté
Reception
In ''Variety'', reviewer Alissa Simon found the film "an earnest but engaging social-issue drama", and commented, "its condensed framework and beaucoup dialogue make the pic resemble a classic three-act play."
In ''Le Soleil'', reviewer Éric Moreault found that the film was full of good intentions but lacked dramatic tension and plausibility.
Awards and accolades
At the 2015
Vancouver International Film Festival, the Canadian Images features jury gave Boileau an honourable mention in the Emerging Canadian Director category for ''Le Dep''.
At the 2015
American Indian Film Festival
The American Indian Film Festival is an annual non-profit film festival in San Francisco, California, United States. It is the world's oldest venue dedicated solely to Native American/First Nations films and prepared the way for the 1979 formati ...
in San Francisco, Ringuette won the best actress award for her performance in ''Le Dep'' (she had previously won the same award in 2012 for the film ''
Mesnak
''Mesnak'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Yves Sioui Durand and released in 2011.
The first feature film written and directed by an indigenous filmmaker from Quebec, the film stars Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon as Dave, a young man of Inn ...
'').
References
External links
Official Site*
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2015 films
2010s psychological drama films
2010s crime thriller films
Canadian crime thriller films
Quebec films
Canadian psychological drama films
Films set in Quebec
Films shot in Quebec
First Nations films
Innu culture
Neo-noir
2015 drama films
French-language Canadian films
2010s Canadian films