The Demons

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The Demons

2015

1h 58m

Drama

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Félix, a 10-year-old boy in Montreal, is afraid of everything, and when kidnappers start targeting boys, his imaginary demons merge with reality.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

The Blue Lenses

Les Démons is weakest when it is falls too self-consciously into ubiquitous cliches about gender and rites of passage. But ... at its best ... Les Démons is an extraordinary film about the coldness of childhood.

Aug 25, 2018

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Jonathan Holland

The Hollywood Reporter

The doubts, fears, and yes, horrors of life beneath the comfortable surface of a Montreal suburb are subjected to the quizzical, pained gaze of a sensitive 10-year-old in Philippe Lesage's laconic, unsettling The Demons.

Dec 7, 2015

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Guy Lodge

Variety

Fevered imagination and nightmarish reality brush shoulders to disconcerting effect in The Demons, Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage's extraordinary examination of childhood fears festering in broad suburban daylight.

Dec 7, 2015

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Paula Arantzazu Ruiz

Cinemanía (Spain)

... [director} Philippe Lesage has posited The Demons at the moment when a child begins to learn that the world is a place full of turbulence... [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 3/5

Dec 7, 2017

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Miguel Muñoz Garnica

El antepenúltimo mohicano

The look Lesage proposes, has something painful in its conception of childhood as a bad harvest, a field full of possibilities of growth badly planted by the ineptitude (inevitable) of the cultivator. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/5

May 9, 2017

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Zhuo-Ning Su

The Film Stage

The result is something almost psychedelically meandering - or simply arbitrary and incoherent.

Rated: C+

Feb 20, 2016

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Audience Member

Beautifully shot and at times very unsettling. So much is said while saying so little. If you need your cinema spoon fed, this isn’t for you. Magnifique

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/31/25

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Ugh. Such garbage. So much potential wasted on nothing. Want that time back.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Synopsis

Félix, a 10-year-old boy in Montreal, is afraid of everything, and when kidnappers start targeting boys, his imaginary demons merge with reality.

Director: Philippe Lesage
Producer: Philippe Lesage, Galilé Marion-Gauvin
Screenwriter: Philippe Lesage
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 23, 2017
Runtime: 1h 58m

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