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The Thawing of Ice

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The Thawing of Ice
FrenchLa Fonte des glaces
Directed byFrançois Péloquin
Written byFrançois Péloquin
Sarah Lévesque
Produced byZiad Touma
StarringChristine Beaulieu
Lothaire Bluteau
CinematographyFrançois Messier-Rheault
Edited byCarina Baccanale
Music byMathieu Charbonneau
Production
company
Couzin Films
Distributed byMaison 4:3
Release date
  • March 14, 2024 (2024-03-14)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The Thawing of Ice (French: La Fonte des glaces) is a Canadian drama film, directed by François Péloquin and released in 2024.[1] The film stars Christine Beaulieu as Louise Denoncourt, a parole officer who runs an experimental rehabilitation program for murder convicts who are nearing eligibility for parole, but who faces challenges when evidence emerges that Marc St-Germain (Lothaire Bluteau), one of the criminals in her program, may have committed the still-unsolved murder of her mother.[2]

The cast also includes Marc Béland, Étienne Lou, Pierre-Paul Alain, Jean-Luc Kanapé, Abdelghafour Elaaziz and Ayana O'Shun.[3]

The film premiered at the Cinéma du Musée in Montreal on March 14, 2024,[3] before opening commercially on March 22.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Fonte des glaces, La – Film de François Péloquin". Films du Québec, March 16, 2024.
  2. ^ François Lévesque, "«La fonte des glaces»: l’idéaliste et le tueur". Le Devoir, March 15, 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Christine Beaulieu brille sur le tapis rouge de La fonte des glaces". Noovo Moi, March 17, 2024.
  4. ^ Luc Boulanger, "Les chemins de la liberté". La Presse, March 22, 2024.
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