Richelieu

This movie could be a Canadian version of a Ken Loach film. It could be a documentary as well as it tells the story of a young woman employed as the 'translator' and coordinator between the director of a corn plant and workers coming over from Guatemala. She will go beyond her assignment in order to protect these workers from many abuses. Acting is excellent and everything in this movie is credible. Everything we're being told is probably not very far from reality. This is a deeply shocking but also moving film. I saw it at a screening during the French Film Festival in Namur (Belgium) in the presence of the very talented actress Ariane Castellanos and director Pier-Philippe Chevigny. I hope it will be widely released as it really deserved to be seen across the world. It takes place in Quebec but could be anywhere where foreign workers are coming to work.

This is truly excellent a depiction of the excesses of modern day capitalism with migrant workers being exploited within an inch of their lives by a foreman who in effect is only obeying the orders of his masters and the masters are obeying the edicts of the shareholding community i.e. Folks who do not realise the monthly increase of their wealth is basically premised upon the exploitation of said migrant workers (maybe they do) ... what a wonderful system I believe it is called capitalism And personally never been a fan

As regards the film it is extremely well put together with the translator played by a truly bilingual French-Canadian Spanish-speaking actress and a host of Guatemalan actors really showing the workings of the corn maize processing plant somewhere in deep Québec

I watched this with a French subtitle for all of the speech indeed the French-Canadian for me as a native French speaker requires complete and full subtitling otherwise I would be completely at sea let us be clear French-Canadian is not French it is a separate language about as understandable to a French person as any of the Patois and Creoles of the Caribbean and as regards the Spanish which I also understand it was actually easier but this was subtitled in French too which was good

It has a nice flow I think somewhere else somebody mentioned Ken Loach every time somebody makes a film of social import the name of Ken Loach is proferred fair dues I suppose

The denouement is shortened here and we do not actually learn what is going to happen to the translator but we can put two and two together and we may find that she may have sacrificed herself for not very much; anyway excellent film highly recommended if you are interested in the excesses of capitalism in the poor treatment of migrant workers anywhere in the world and in cultural perception of The Other.