Décharge/Dir:Benoit Pilon, Screenplay: B.Pilon & Pierre Szalowski - Pilon’s own cinematic naturalism
Somewhere along the narrow passage of the velvet ropes, guiding us in a single line, towards the big ticket counter unfolding right in front of you, I could see some of the young ushers tending the registers of the counter, costumed in numerous halloween garb, could it be a vampire, a brothel madam, Ruth Ellen Rousseau, or an angel, who was a not so angelic female usher. Finally, when it came my turn, I was served by the “brothel madam”, and the dress was befittingly way too tight for her. One thing that was for sure, is that the “brothel madam” set the perfect tone for this evening, along with Pilon’s film. So, without no fuss or no muss, I payed my way in seeing Benoît Pilon’s latest film, Décharge , which succeeds sublimely his first film, Ce qu’il faut pour vivre , written by Bernard Émond. Pilon simply never fails at mastering direction, could it be for his very first documentary, Roger Toupin, épicier variété at a very meager budget, or this film, Décharge . In itself, Pilon’s...