Product Description

Seismologist Alice Bradley is despatched to her home town of Baie-Comeau, Quebec, to investigate why the tides have stopped flowing there. She is reunited with an old college friend, reporter Catherine Rolland, and meets roguish pilot Marc Vandal. It soon becomes apparent that the problems with the tide coincided with a variety of odd behaviour amongst the Baie-Comeau residents, and Alice gradually realises that the solution to the mystery may be stranger than she ever anticipated.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99619 in DVD
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Color, Import, Subtitled, Dolby, Digital Sound
• Original language: French
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 113 minutes

Customer Reviews

Haunting and off the beaten track
As someone who enjoys films that turn our ordinary perceptions of the world inside out, I was pleasantly surprised to find such a gem almost at my back door. The film takes place in Baie Comeau, a small Quebec town a day's drive from Montreal or Quebec City. The beauty of this area was well captured in the film - the town is actually more gritty and industrial than ever showed up in the film, but the spot is gorgeous in a kind of backcountry way. The film takes us through a series of events that are increasingly fantastic, from the fact that the tide appears to have stopped following a local tragedy, to a climax which combines the arrival of the water with a kind of emotional resolution of the tension between the characters. In some ways, the film made me think of Margaret Atwood's novel "Surfacing", another story that takes place in Quebec backcountry, with a similar melding of fantastical and real events, but the two stories are really quite different.

The only scene that is slightly out of synch with the rest is the unrealistic use of satellite imagery to locate a downed plane. The film also includes a small but effective role by Geneviève Bujold, a Quebec actress we see all too rarely.

I recommend the film for those that like a story that is somewhat offbeat, and also for its depiction of this particular part of Quebec, a part one rarely sees on film.