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201485 minGdocumentary

Cavale au Canada

201485 minGdocumentary

Dina Mendes returns to Montreal in 2013 to explore her father Jacques Mesrine's legacy, blending personal reflection with artistic expression in Québec.

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Dina Mendes returns to Montreal in 2013 to explore her father Jacques Mesrine's legacy, blending personal reflection with artistic expression in Québec.

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Michael Blumdirector

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Dina Mendes returns to Montreal in 2013, seeking traces of her father, Jacques Mesrine, a notorious French criminal. The artist's quest intertwines personal reflection with an artistic project, shifting from fiction to cinema-vérité, particularly in Percé. Despite her efforts, Mendes finds herself unable to fulfill either goal, caught between well-documented facts and her own identity. The film offers a Québec perspective on a narrative central to French popular culture, without ever featuring Mesrine himself.

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