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| Bluff (Lavoie-Fecteau, 2007) 8.5/10 |
| Bluff (Lavoie-Fecteau, 2007)
This low budget and self financed project is an amazing maze well orchestrated. This is the first project from Lavoie-Fecteau and they made it with good taste. Before Bluff, they only directed short films apart and not together. And they passed the bridge from short films to feature film with brio! Even the limits they imposed to themselves; all the action is in one apartment, a low budget and five periods of time, didn’t failed the film. The “huis clos” mood just helped the creativity of the writers. It’s funny because in a time where Quebecer filmmakers like Robert Lepage are bragging about the lack of financing from the governments, Bluff shows that that innovation and quality doesn’t equal big budgets. And I personally think that is so true when I look at the big production blockbusters they offer us these days. But, that’s a whole other story… The low budget didn’t interfere with the fact that we have the presence of the greatest present and future actors of the Province. Only to take the time; Rémy Girard (Le Déclin de l’Empire Américain, Les Invasions Barbares both from Denys Arcand), Isabelle Blais (Les Invasions Barbares, Les Aimants) Pierre-François Legendre (Québec-Montréal, Horloge Biologique both from Ricardo Trogi), Marc Messier (Les Boys I – II – III – IV) and I could go on and on. My personal appreciation of this first film is a big two thumbs up to Bluff. It’s a great project and in this decadent time it’s great to watch something that enters in my definition of Cinema; a film that is made with an artistic goal with creators who have feelings for what they do and are not doing it in a business or money talk shit box-office crap interest. Anyhow, I wish great success to Bluff. By Michael Parent |