The Demons (2015 film)

The Demons
Film poster
FrenchLes Démons
Directed byPhilippe Lesage
Written byPhilippe Lesage
Produced byPhilippe Lesage
Galilé Marion-Gauvin
StarringÉdouard Tremblay-Grenier
Laurent Lucas
Pascale Bussières
CinematographyNicolas Canniccioni
Edited byMathieu Bouchard-Malo
Music byPye Corner Audio[1]
Production
companies
Les Films de l'Autre
Productions Unité centrale
Distributed byFunFilm Distribution Inc.
Release date
Running time
118 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The Demons (French: Les Démons) is a 2015 Canadian drama film, written and directed by Philippe Lesage.[2]

Based in part on Lesage's own childhood, the film stars Édouard Tremblay-Grenier as Félix, a ten-year-old boy living with his family in a quiet suburb of Montreal who is prone to excessive worry.[3] As a series of child abductions begins to grip the town, however, his vague and needless fears begin to give way to something much more real.[4]

The film's cast also includes Laurent Lucas, Pascale Bussières, Victoria Diamond, Vassili Schneider, Sarah Mottet, Théodore Pellerin, Bénédicte Décary and Pier-Luc Funk.[3]

The film was shot in August/September 2014 in Montreal and vicinity.[1]

The film premiered in September 2015 at the San Sebastian Film Festival.[4] It was released in the province of Quebec (on 8 screens) on 30 October 2015.[1] In December, the film was announced as part of the Toronto International Film Festival's annual Canada's Top Ten screening series of the ten best Canadian films of the year.[5]

The film was nominated for the 2016 Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award at the Gothenburg Film Festival.[6]

Tremblay-Grenier reprised his role as Félix in a segment of Lesage's 2018 film Genesis (Genèse).[7]

  1. ^ a b c "Démons, Les – Film de Philippe Lesage". Films du Québec. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Philippe Lesage explores his childhood fears in Les Démons". Montreal Gazette, October 25, 2015.
  3. ^ a b "'The Demons' ('Les Demons'): San Sebastian Review". The Hollywood Reporter, September 30, 2015.
  4. ^ a b "San Sebastian Film Review: ‘The Demons’". Variety, September 26, 2015.
  5. ^ "TIFF reveals Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival line-up". The Globe and Mail, December 8, 2015.
  6. ^ "And the nominees are..." Göteborg Film Festival. 12 January 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  7. ^ "Film Review: ‘Genesis’". Variety, August 8, 2018.