The French language adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy portrays a young woman in Montreal defying the law to free her wrongly imprisoned brother.
as its official submission for the best international feature category to the 92nd Academy Awards.
The French language indie adapts Sophocles' classical Greek tragedy of the same name to tell the story of a young woman’s search for justice as Deraspe questions the treatment of immigrants in modern-day Montreal.includes Nahema Ricci, Nour Belkhiria, Rawad El-Zein, Rachida Oussaada, Antoine Desrochers, Paul Doucet and Nathalie Tanous.
The film, which earned the best Canadian feature film at the recently-concluded Toronto Film Festival, portrays a young woman, Antigone, played by Ricci, whose life as a Canadian refugee and immigrant is turned upside down when one of her brothers is wrongfully gunned down during a drug arrest, and another is taken into custody.
As Antigone confronts the police, the judicial and penal system to free her unjustly jailed brother, she sees a legal vise tighten around her. That forces Antigone to defy the laws of men with her own values of love and solidarity.to the Oscar race is not only a huge honor. It’s also a way for me to highlight the values of empathy, artistry and integrity, which Canadian films exemplify so well,” Quebec director Deraspe said in a statement.
The Oscars in recent years has provided a Hollywood launchpad for other Quebec directors like Jean-Marc Vallee, Denis Villeneuve, Kim Nguyen and Phillipe Falardeau as they now routinely direct star-driven movies and TV series stateside.The 92nd Academy Awards will be announced Feb. 9, 2020.
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