Polytechnique
Villeneuve’s aesthetically uncompromising historical horror film about a Montreal mass shooting is a virtuosic and terribly absorbing portrait of violence in its most extreme form.
Based on the École Polytechnique mass shooting in Montreal in 1989, Villeneuve’s bold depiction of unfathomable, senseless violence follows an anonymous young man (Maxim Gaudette) as he embarks on a horrific misogynist killing spree at the titular engineering school. An aesthetically uncompromising horror film made all the more horrifying by its being painstakingly drawn from real events, Polytechnique is a virtuosic and terribly absorbing portrait of violence in its most extreme form.
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