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The Demons

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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Zhuo-Ning Su The Film Stage The result is something almost psychedelically meandering - or simply arbitrary and incoherent. Rated: C+ Feb 20, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Ugh. Such garbage. So much potential wasted on nothing. Want that time back. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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