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Félix, a 10-year-old boy in Montreal, is afraid of everything, and when kidnappers start targeting boys, his imaginary demons merge with reality.
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas The Blue Lenses 08/25/2018
Les Démons is weakest when it is falls too self-consciously into ubiquitous cliches about gender and rites of passage. But ... at its best ... Les Démons is an extraordinary film about the coldness of childhood. Go to Full Review Jonathan Holland The Hollywood Reporter 12/07/2015
The doubts, fears, and yes, horrors of life beneath the comfortable surface of a Montreal suburb are subjected to the quizzical, pained gaze of a sensitive 10-year-old in Philippe Lesage's laconic, unsettling The Demons. Go to Full Review Guy Lodge Variety 12/07/2015
Fevered imagination and nightmarish reality brush shoulders to disconcerting effect in The Demons, Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage's extraordinary examination of childhood fears festering in broad suburban daylight. Go to Full Review Paula Arantzazu Ruiz Cinemanía (Spain) 12/07/2017
3/5
... [director} Philippe Lesage has posited The Demons at the moment when a child begins to learn that the world is a place full of turbulence... [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Miguel Muñoz Garnica El antepenúltimo mohicano 05/09/2017
4/5
The look Lesage proposes, has something painful in its conception of childhood as a bad harvest, a field full of possibilities of growth badly planted by the ineptitude (inevitable) of the cultivator. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Zhuo-Ning Su The Film Stage 02/20/2016
C+
The result is something almost psychedelically meandering - or simply arbitrary and incoherent. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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01/31/2025 Beautifully shot and at times very unsettling. So much is said while saying so little. If you need your cinema spoon fed, this isn’t for you. Magnifique See more 01/11/2016 Ugh. Such garbage. So much potential wasted on nothing. Want that time back. See more Read all reviews
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Philippe Lesage

Director

Laurent Lucas

Actor

Édouard Tremblay-Grenier

Félix

Yannick Gobeil-Dugas

Actor

Jean-Luc Terriault

Max

Sarah Mottet

Emmanuelle

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Movie Info

Synopsis Félix, a 10-year-old boy in Montreal, is afraid of everything, and when kidnappers start targeting boys, his imaginary demons merge with reality.
Director
Philippe Lesage
Producer
Philippe Lesage, Galilé Marion-Gauvin
Screenwriter
Philippe Lesage
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 23, 2017
Runtime
1h 58m
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