Requiem for a Ruthless Killer

Known for his preoccupation with working-class heroes, humorous twists, and casual subversions of documentary notions of reality, Robert Morin turns his incisive wit to the last three days in the life of "Reggie the Frog" Savoie, small-time Montreal hood, a man of hugely swollen and perverse appetites. As the film opens, Reggie, behind bars, is seeing his son for the first time in five years. In the middle of their tender reunion, a prison escape occurs and Reggie is on the loose again. What follows is a riotous deconstructed road movie of sorts, as Reggie resumes old habits: torturing lawyers, dodging the newspaper editors and the police who are on his tail, and living the high life with his criminal cronies. Morin tells the tale of modern-day crime and punishment in a series of flashbacks and flashforwards, as well as slipping regularly and imperceptibly into documentary-style subjective point-of-view to take us deep inside the perceptions of Reggie's crowd.-Best Canadian Feature, Toronto Festival

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