Carcasses (film)

Carcasses
Carcasses
	Film poster
Directed by	Denis Côté
Written by	Denis Côté
Produced by	Sylvain Corbeil; Denis Côté; Stéphanie Morissette
Starring	Jean-Paul Colmor
Cinematography	Ilio Kotorenchev
Edited by	Maxime-Claude L'Écuyer
Production; companies	Nihilproductions; Visit Films
Distributed by	FunFilm [fr]
Release date	May 21, 2009 (Cannes);
Running time	72 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French
Budget	$60,000

Carcasses is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by Denis Côté and released in 2009.^[2] Blending documentary and fictionalized elements, the film is a portrait of Jean-Paul Colmor, a real-life man who runs a scrapyard of old broken-down cars, with a cast consisting almost entirely of non-professional actors.^[2]

The film premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, in the Director's Fortnight stream.^[3] It was well-received on the whole, although its premiere was marred by one patron who so intensely disliked the film that he loudly booed while the rest of the audience applauded at the conclusion of the screening, and interrupted the post-screening press conference to express his criticisms.^[4]

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2009.^[5]

Release

Carcasses was released on DVD on January 26, 2010 by FunFilm [fr].^[6]

References

^ Ramond, Charles-Henri (April 21, 2009). "Carcasses – Film de Denis Côté" (in French). Films du Québec. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
^ ^a ^b (May 29, 2009) "A meditation on what it means to be marginal". Montreal Gazette.
^ (May 11, 2009) "Next stop: Cannes; Three Quebec movies in the directors' spotlight at film festival". Montreal Gazette.
^ (May 28, 2009) "Don't judge a film by its coverage; Denis Cote's visit to Cannes was a success, despite reports about Carcasses's screening". Montreal Gazette.
^ (December 26, 2009) "Dolan, Nadda films among Canada's best of the year". Waterloo Region Record.
^ Ramond, Charles-Henri (January 25, 2010). "Carcasses de Denis Côté: enfin le DVD" (in French). Films du Québec. Retrieved November 14, 2023.