The Lion's Path

The Lion's Path

NR 2015 · 78 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama

After meeting about a month ago, Alex and Jade fall for each other hard. When she invites him to join her in the country with some friends, including her cousin Oliver, he leaps at the chance. But what Jade has failed to make clear is that they will be sharing with other young guests who are all members of a commune led by Gabriel, a former college professor obsessed with Nietzsche. Alex, who has been soul-searching since he quit studying economics, soon realizes that Gabriel is a bona fide guru who has turned his magnificent house into what he calls a “laboratory of the real,” where pretence, prejudice, taboos and morality are banned. (FNC)

Directed by Stéphan Beaudoin

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Sébastien Delorme Gabriel
Frédéric Lemay Alex
Geneviève Bédard Jade
Étienne Pilon Louis-Olivier
Katrine Duhaime Martine
Catherine-Audrey Lachapelle Mariloup
Marie-Chantal Nadeau Chloé
Émile Schneider Zack
Félix-Antoine Boutin Étienne

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