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Jacques Davidts is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. He is best known as the writer of Polytechnique (2009), for which he won a Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 30th Genie Awards in 2010.
Jacques Davidts est un scénariste belge né à Liège. Il travaille longtemps dans le domaine de la publicité avant de s'essayer à la scénarisation, notamment Polytechnique en 2009 qui lui vaut un Prix Génie [1].
Jacques Davidts. Ru. Synopsis: After a dangerous sea crossing and a harrowing stay in Malaysia, a young Vietnamese girl named Tinh and her family arrive in Quebec where they begin their new life. Thanks to the warm welcome from all, including their sponsor family, Tinh slowly adapts to her new reality.
Jan 25, 2024 · Yet together with veteran screenwriter Jacques Davidts (Denis Villeneuve’s Polytechnique), Michaud transformed Thuy’s words into a film both enigmatic and heartwarming, the narrative ...
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A young man prepares his rifle and leaves a message for his mother. He then goes to Polytechnique Montreal, an engineering school, and enters a classroom during class with a rifle. He orders the men to leave and the women to stay. They comply after he shoots into the ceiling to show that he is serious. He tells the women that he hates feminists. Al...
Maxim Gaudette as The KillerDevelopment
Karine Vanasse, who played Valérie, helped produce Polytechnique, and wanted to make a film about the massacre for years. She helped secure director Denis Villeneuve for the film, who at the time was respected for making the 2000 film Maelström.Despite the sensitivity to the incident in Quebec, Villeneuve asserted it was not too soon for a film, and that there was an important conversation to be had. Vanasse researched by speaking to the families of women killed in École Polytechnique de Mont...
Filming
École Polytechnique de Montréal gave the filmmakers the right to use the campus as a location, but Villeneuve opted against filming there to be respectful. The film was shot at Cégep de Maisonneuve and Collège Ahuntsic as well as Griffintown and Westmount.Villeneuve shot the film in black and white, so as to avoid the presence of blood on screen. There were two versions of the film produced, one in English and one in French. The director Denis Villeneuve hoped the film would enter into the En...
Polytechnique was screened at the Directors' Fortnight at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival on 17 May.It was also featured in festivals in London, Spain and Namur in fall 2009. The film was released on 6 February 2009, in Quebec, and on 20 March 2009 in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary. Its release sparked controversy in Quebec and across Canada for its ...
Box office
The film grossed $326,000 in Quebec cinemas during its opening weekend, ranking first at the Quebec box office. In English Canadian areas, it grossed $100,000.It was considered a financial hit in Quebec.
Critical response
The film has received mostly positive reviews from film critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 87% of professional critics gave the film a positive review based on 15 reviews, with an average rating of 6.98/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 63 out of 100 based on 6 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". In Canada, Peter Howell of the Toronto Star gave the film three and a half stars out of four, stating "Polytechnique makes no judgments,...
Accolades
In presenting the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award to Polytechnique in January 2010, Toronto Film Critics Association president Brian D. Johnsoncalled it a "film of astonishing courage."
Polytechnique at IMDbFilming PolytechniqueJan 22, 2021 · Cette semaine, nous avons eu le privilège de piquer une jasette avec le scénariste Jacques Davidts, qui est notamment connu pour sa série de fiction à succès Les Parent.
Oct 8, 2020 · LES MECS — Voici enfin mise en ligne la nouvelle série de Jacques Davidts. L’auteur, qui nous a notamment donné Les Parent, explore cette fois l’univers des hommes de 50 ans. Il signe ici Les Mecs, un ensemble réalisé par nul autre que Ricardo Trogi, et qui s’attarde à l’univers de quatre amis quinquagénaires hantés ...
