Polytechnique

Inspired by the tragic school shooting that took place at Montreal’s Polytechnique school on December 6, 1989, director Denis Villeneuve’s melancholy docudrama portrays the events as seen from the perspective of two students, Valérie (Karine Vanasse) and Jean-François (Sebastien Huberdeau). When an armed madman enters the school with the intention of killing as many females as possible, the lives of every student involved are forever changed., Two students (Sebastien Huberdeau, Karine Vanasse) are terrorized by a deranged shooter at Montreal’s Polytechnique school in this searing docudrama based on a real-life event that took place on Dec. 6, 1989.