''With Love'' () is a Canadian thriller film, directed by
Marc Bisaillon
Marc Bisaillon is a Canadians, Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. He is most noted for his 2018 film ''With Love (2018 film), With Love (L'Amour)'', for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Canadian Screen Awar ...
and released in 2018. Based on the 2006 murder spree of Stephen Marshall, the film stars Pierre-Luc Lafontaine as Alex, a young man who travels to Maine under the pretext of visiting his father (
Paul Doucet
Paul Doucet (born 1970) is a Canadian actor known for his portrayal of Jean Duceppe in '' Jean Duceppe''.
Early life
Doucet was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1970. He studied drama at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Career
His mo ...
), but is instead planning to use the state's
sex offender registry
A sex offender registry is a system in various countries designed to allow government authorities to keep track of the activities of sex offenders, including those who have completed their criminal sentences.
Sex offender registration is usual ...
to track down and murder sex offenders; meanwhile, his mother Rose ( Fanny Mallette), having awareness of his intentions, travels to Maine to try to stop him.
The film premiered at the Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue in October 2018."L’amour de Marc Bisaillon en première mondiale à l’ouverture du FCIAT" ''L'Initiative'', October 22, 2018.
The film received three
Canadian Screen Award
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nominations at the
7th Canadian Screen Awards
The seventh annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 31, 2019, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2018.Best Supporting Actor (Doucet),
Best Original Screenplay
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Bernard Gariépy Strobl
Bernard Gariépy Strobl is a Canadian re-recording sound mixer, best known internationally as the supervising re-recording mixer of '' Arrival'' (2016), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Sound (shared with Claude La Haye and Sylvain Bel ...