Cross My Heart (2017 film)

Cross My Heart
FrenchLes Rois mongols
Directed byLuc Picard
Written byNicole Bélanger
Based onSalut mon roi mongol! by Nicole Bélanger
Produced byStéphanie Pages
Luc Chatelain
StarringMilya Corbeil-Gauvreau
Henri Richer-Picard
Anthony Bouchard
Alexis Guay
Clare Coulter
Julie Ménard
Maude Laurendeau
Jean-François Boudreau
Martin Desgagne
Sophie Cadieux
Bobby Beshro
Nicola-Frank Vachon
Emmanuel Charest
Gary Boudreault
Gabriel Lemire
CinematographyFrançois Dutil
Edited byCarmen Mélanie Pépin
Music byViviane Audet
Robin-Joël Cool
Alexis Martin
Production
company
Echo Media
Distributed byTelefiction Distribution
Release date
  • September 22, 2017 (2017-09-22)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Cross My Heart (French: Les Rois mongols) is a 2017 Canadian drama film directed by Luc Picard.[1]

Set in 1970, the film centres on Manon (Milya Corbeil-Gauvreau), a young girl who is staying with her aunt and uncle (Jean-François Boudreau and Julie Ménard) as her father is dying of cancer and her mother is struggling with depression. Scared that she may be taken by children's aid and separated from her younger brother Mimi (Anthony Bouchard), she takes inspiration from the contemporaneous October crisis and kidnaps elderly neighbour Rose (Clare Coulter) so that she, Mimi and their cousins Martin (Henri Richer-Picard) and Denis (Alexis Guay) can safely travel to an isolated rural cabin where Manon hopes to live free of parental interference.[2]

The film was written by Nicole Bélanger, as an adaptation of her novel Salut mon roi mongol!.[3]

The film was selected at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival in 2018.

  1. ^ "Les rois mongols: à hauteur d'enfant". La Presse, September 22, 2017.
  2. ^ «Les rois mongols»: il était une fois dans l’Est. Le Devoir, September 23, 2017.
  3. ^ "Nicole Bélanger - Les rois mongols: une ado rebelle raconte la crise d’Octobre". Le Journal de Québec, September 10, 2017.