A Pacemaker and a Sidecar

A Pacemaker and a Sidecar
FrenchL'Eau chaude, l'eau frette
Directed byAndré Forcier
Written byAndré Forcier
François Gill
Jacques Marcotte
Produced byBernard Lalonde
StarringJean Lapointe
CinematographyFrançois Gill
Edited byAndré Corriveau
Music byAndré Duchesne
Production
companies
Les Productions André Forcier
ACPAV
Release date
Running time
94 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

A Pacemaker and a Sidecar (French: L'Eau chaude, l'eau frette, lit. "Hot Water, Cold Water") is a Canadian black comedy film, directed by André Forcier and released in 1976.[1]

The film centres on a group of residents of a rooming house in a working class neighbourhood in Montreal, who have gathered for the birthday party of their landlord Polo (Jean Lapointe), a local crime boss and loan shark.[2] The guests at the party include Amédée (Albert Payette) and Panama (Guy L'Écuyer), a gay couple who cater the party, and Carmen (Sophie Clément), a woman who owes Polo money for her daughter Francine's (Louise Gagnon) pacemaker and decides to pay the debt off with sex.[3] Meanwhile, Francine and her boyfriend Ti-Guy (Réjean Audet), who both dislike Polo, hatch a plot to kill him which backfires when another guest at the party dies instead.

  1. ^ Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 164.
  2. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Eau chaude, l’eau frette, L’ – Film d’André Forcier". Films du Québec, January 31, 2009.
  3. ^ Robert Martin, "Forcier's vivid images lack thought". The Globe and Mail, October 21, 1976.