Synopsis
In a town fired up by the energy of the hunt, Lindsay and Justine, two teenage outcasts, get their hands on a winning ten-thousand-dollar scratcher. A daring blend of documentary and fiction, Mad Dog Labine is a cinematic UFO featuring two young non-professional actresses in a surprising feel-good movie.
A word from Tënk
This film owes a lot to Quebec cinema, and that's good news.
Without nostalgia, references abound. Drawing left and right from our most beautiful and roughest cinematography to extract a raw and ultimately singular energy.
There is here a real pleasure to shoot, to clash images and sounds. No posturing, no complexes, this film puts the municipality of Pontiac at the heart of its project and shows that in this microcosm on the bangs of the Outaouais, anywhere else is no more important than the "here and now".
The filmmakers have cooked up a true picaresque tale from fragments torn from reality. This deliberate blurring of the lines between fiction and documentary gives Mad Dog Labine an impression of freedom, of life, quite simply, that is sorely lacking in today's hyperbolic, guardrail-ridden cinema…
François Delisle
Filmmaker
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