Cadavres

Not to be confused with cadavers, the plural of cadaver.

For other uses, see Cadavre.

Cadavres is a Canadian comedy thriller film, directed by Érik Canuel and released in 2009. It is a film adaptation of the 1998 novel Cadavres by François Barcelo, a tragicomedy about the deadly feelings that unite a brother and sister who have nothing in common.

Cadavres
DVD Cover
Directed by	Érik Canuel
Written by	Benoît Guichard
Based on	Cadavres by François Barcelo
Produced by	Pierre Gendron Christian Larouche Richard Ostiguy
Starring	Patrick Huard Julie Le Breton Sylvie Boucher Christian Bégin Christopher Heyerdahl Marie Brassard Patrice Robitaille Hugolin Chevrette Gilles Renaud
Cinematography	Jean-François Bergeron
Music by	Michel Corriveau
Production company	Zoofilms
Release date	February 20, 2009 (2009-02-20)
Running time	117 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

Plot

One Halloween, the alcoholic mother of good-for-nothing Raymond suddenly dies, and he throws her body in a ditch. Repenting, he calls his sister Angèle, an actress who he has not seen for ten years, to help find the corpse. But the corpse they bring back in the ruined family home is not that of their mother. The brother and the sister start a sinister adventure involving two gangsters in dire straits, two chilling dealers, a dishonest artist agent, a terribly stupid cop, and a horde of pigs.

Cast

• Patrick Huard as Raymond Marchildon
• Julie Le Breton as Angèle
• Sylvie Boucher as the mother
• Christian Bégin as agent Pilon
• Christopher Heyerdahl as Paulo
• Marie Brassard as Paulette
• Patrice Robitaille as Jos-Louis
• Hugolin Chevrette as Rocky
• Gilles Renaud as Ronald Maisonneuve

Release

The film was released February 20, 2009. It received mixed criticism and failed to create substantial revenue at the box-office.^[1]