Montreal World Film Festival

Thursday, August 23--------The Montreal World Film Festival opens this evening with the World Premiere of a film from the local Quebec film industry.  BLUFF, by Marc-Andre Lavoie and Simon Olivier Fecteau, is an intriguing character study with an ensemble cast that includes Emmanuel Bilodeau, Isabelle Blais, Raymond Bouchard, Nicolas Canuel, Ève Duranceau, Simon Olivier Fecteau, Rémy Girard, David La Haye, Pierre-François Legendre, Alexis Martin, Marc Messier and Marie-Laur.

Houses contain the secrets of their various inhabitants over the years. That is what a worker engaged in demolishing an old house discovers, when he opens a trapdoor to make a macabre discovery. The many people who have inhabited this particular house over a fifteen year period have left their mark, and this is indeed an building with its share of odd tenants. For example, a thief who decides to arrange a theft in his own apartment as a way of finshing off his career in crime in a blaze of glory; a couple that is offered $125,000 for a painting they once possessed but now seems to have gone missing; a student scheduled to be interviewed for a job that he needs badly, keeps practicing his spiel obsessively long after the appointed time has past; a couple looking to have a baby advertise for a donor and are surprised by who answers their ad; and an aging amateur boxer, adamant to demonstrate that he still can go a few rounds with his daughter's new boyfriend, finds that time has taken its toll on his body.

The film will open theatrically in Canada on September 7th. To view the film's website: http://www.bluff-lefilm.com

Sandy Mandelberger, Montreal World FF Editor