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Elephant
Why this pick
Like Polytechnique, it observes a school tragedy with restrained, unsettling calm, fragmented viewpoints, and an emphasis on ordinary routines before violence ruptures them.
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United 93
Why this pick
Its sober, near-documentary approach and refusal of easy heroics echo Polytechnique’s commitment to procedural tension, collective vulnerability, and respectful emotional distance.
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The Class
Why this pick
A naturalistic, tightly observed classroom drama that shares Polytechnique’s institutional realism, ensemble focus, and interest in the pressures simmering within an educational environment.
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The Sweet Hereafter
Why this pick
This Canadian study of communal grief has Polytechnique’s emotional restraint and moral seriousness, using a fractured structure to examine how catastrophe lingers through survivors’ lives.
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Mass
Why this pick
An intensely contained aftermath drama, built around grief, accountability, and devastatingly measured conversation rather than sensationalizing an act of violence.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A dramatization of the 1989 Montréal Massacre, during which several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Maxim Gaudette
The Assassin
Martin Watier
Jean-François (voice)
Pierre-Yves Cardinal
Éric
Pierre Leblanc
Mr. Martineau
Sébastien Huberdeau
Jean-François
Karine Vanasse
Valérie