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There’s a telling moment around halfway through writer/director Chloé Cinq-Mars’s Peau à Peau (Nesting) that cuts to the heart of the film. The main character Pénélope (Rose-Marie Perreault), a new mother who is sleep deprived and overwhelmed caring for her new baby, confesses that her point of view has shifted. Previously when she saw a mother and baby out on the street, she would only really see the latter. Now that she has a newborn of her own, all Pénélope can see is the mother: tired, struggling, and wearing baggy clothes to hide her body.

It’s a moment that hangs over much of Peau à Peau, a French-Canadian film that follows Pénélope as she struggles with postpartum. In addition to all of the physical symptoms of being a new mom, she also feels abandoned by her musician boyfriend, Gaspard (Simon Landry-Desy). He’s in the habit of staying out late,...

"Your brother is no to be trusted, Donald." "It's him or me." Saban Films has revealed an official trailer for Dusk for a Hitman, a Quebecois crime thriller arriving in the US to watch on VOD starting in April. This already premiered and originally opened in Canada last year obviously. Set in the late 1970s, the most feared hitman in the Montreal underworld, Donald Lavoie, found himself hunted down by his former accomplices and by a tenacious police officer. Donald finds himself caught in a tightening vise in this film based loosely on a true story. The Montreal crime thriller stars Éric Bruneau as Donald Lavoie, with Benoît Gouin, Rose-Marie Perreault, Sylvain Marcel, Simon Landry-Desy, and Joakim Robillard. This has such an obvious slick and cheesy look and feel to it, even with this guy's mustache being an important part of the performance. It's worth a look if you're into...