Nut Jobs

Nut Jobs
FrenchLes Pas d'allure
Directed byAlexandre Leblanc
Written byAlexandre Leblanc
Julien Grégoire
Produced byAlexandre Leblanc
StarringJean-Sébastien Courchesne
Sophie Desmarais
CinematographyVincent Biron
Alexandre Leblanc
Edited byAlexandre Leblanc
Music byPeter Venne
Production
company
Barbutène
Release date
  • July 16, 2022 (2022-07-16) (Fantasia)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Nut Jobs (French: Les Pas d'allure) is a Canadian crime comedy film, directed by Alexandre Leblanc and released in 2022.[1] The film stars Jean-Sébastien Courchesne as Benju, a man who is recounting to his ex-girlfriend Angie (Sophie Desmarais) the events that took place after she got fired for trying to lead a staff coup at the right-wing talk radio station where she worked; in an attempt to win her back, Benju broke into the home of Valérie (Annie St-Pierre), the daughter of station owner Valère (Richard Fréchette), only to end up kidnapped by goons who ultimately revealed to him that the station is actually being used to transmit mind control frequencies to manipulate its listeners.[2]

The cast also includes Benoit Bourbonnais, Yvan Fontaine, Mathieu Bourque, Jean-François Boisvenue, Erin Margurite Carter, Alexis Lefebvre, Élisabeth Sirois, Alain Chevarier, Guillaume Pâquet, Thomas Gionet-Lavigne, Jocelyn Pelletier, Sophie Lecathelinais and Simon Lacroix in supporting roles.

The film premiered at the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival,[3] where it was the winner of the Audience Award for best Quebec film.[4] It entered commercial release in June 2023.[5]

  1. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Pas d’allure, Les – Film de Alexandre Leblanc". Films du Québec, May 28, 2023.
  2. ^ Martin Gignac, "Imaginatif au possible". La Presse, June 2, 2023.
  3. ^ Martin Gignac, "Un buffet royal à Fantasia". La Presse, July 14, 2022.
  4. ^ Ellie Calnan, "‘The Roundup’, ‘The Artifice Girl’ take top Fantasia audience awards". Screen Daily, August 5, 2022.
  5. ^ "« Les Pas d’allure » d’Alexandre Leblanc avec Sophie Desmarais et Jean-Sebastien Courchesne, à l’affiche dès le 3 juin 2023". CTVM, May 17, 2023.