As Karine Vanasse raises herself from a pool of blood in a quiet university classroom, the look of shock on her face is genuinely frightening. Around her lie classmates who are dead or dying. Like ...
Denis Villeneuve's "Polytechnique" is a dispassionate retelling of the massacre of 14 young women at a school in Montreal by a deranged young man with a high-powered rifle in December 1989. By Ray ...
"Polytechnique," a French-language movie that relives a 1989 Montreal college massacre of 14 women by a crazed gunman, on Monday night dominated the Genies, Canada's film awards, with nine trophies, ...
Canadian filmmakers were lauded for their dark portrayals of true events at the 30th Genie Awards on Monday, as front-runner Polytechnique claimed most of the big wins while conjuring painful memories ...
Polytechnique Montréal is expanding its scholarship program honouring the 14 women who were killed at the engineering school 36 years ago. The Order of the White Rose scholarship was established in ...
Reid Goldberg is a features writer for Collider. Having grown up in the Midwest, he attended the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. While he's begrudingly accepted that a FIlm Studies degree wasn't ...
With a staggering nine awards, Denis Villeneuve’s “Polytechnique” swept The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television’s controversial 30th annual Genie Awards, held on Toronto’s waterfront Monday night.
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On Dec. 6, 1989, 23-year-old Nathalie Provost was shot four times by Marc Lepine after he entered her classroom at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique with guns drawn and separated the men from the women.