Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #116. Souterrain – Sophie Dupuis

Date:

Souterrain

Quebec’s Sophie Dupuis will have sophomore feature Souterrain ready for 2020, produced by Etienne Hansez from Montreal’s Bravo Charlie and backed by SODEC, Telefilm Canada and the Harold Greenberg Fund. Returning to her native Val d’Or, Dupuis reunites with her 2018 Chien de Garde (Family First) star Théodore Pellerin (poised to have a breakout year stateside with Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always and My Salinger Year) with a cast consisting of Joakim Robillard, James Hyndman, Guillaume Cyr, Catherine Trudeau, Mickael Gouin, Chantal Fontaine, Bruno Marcil, Jean L’Italien, Lauren Hartley, Jean-Francois Boudreau, Maxime Genois, Charles-Aubey Houde and Sebastien Leblanc. Dupuis’ 2018 debut was Canada’s submission for the Best Foreign Language nomination.

MUBI World Cinema

Gist: Maxime (Robillard) is a miner who wants to make up for his troubled past. When an explosion happens in the mine, he goes underground to save his friends and colleagues.

Release Date/Prediction: Dupuis completed principal photography in July, 2019. If we don’t see Dupuis pop up in Critics’ Week at Cannes or in Locarno, we anticipate a TIFF Platform slot for Dupuis.

Nicholas Bell
Nicholas Bell
Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

Share post:

NEWSLETTER SIGNUP

Popular

More like this
Related

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Bi Gan’s ‘Resurrection’

An already acclaimed filmmaker in his own right after...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Saeed Roustayi’s ‘Woman and Child’

Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustaee (also spelled Saeed Roustayi -...

Resurrection | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

In Dreams: Gan Explores a Century of the Cinematic...

Woman and Child | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

All the Regime Allows: Roustaee Finds a Woman Scorned If...