Stranger in a Cab

Stranger in a Cab (French: Ceci n'est pas un polar, lit. "This is not a thriller") is a Canadian drama film, directed by Patrick Gazé and released in 2014.^[1] The film stars Roy Dupuis as André Kosinski, a lonely taxi driver in Montreal who begins a passionate affair with Marianne (Christine Beaulieu) after she is a passenger in his cab, only to become concerned that she may have been involved in a crime.^[2]

Stranger in a Cab
Film poster
French	Ceci n'est pas un polar
Directed by	Patrick Gazé
Written by	Patrick Gazé
Produced by	Louisa Déry Michèle Grondin
Starring	Roy Dupuis Christine Beaulieu
Cinematography	Jean-François Lord
Edited by	Patrick Gazé
Production company	Productions Mi-Lou
Distributed by	K-Films Amérique
Release date	October 9, 2014 (2014-10-09)
Running time	119 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

Brendan Kelly of the Montreal Gazette reviewed the film positively, writing that "You could call writer-director Patrick Gazé’s debut feature a Québécois Taxi Driver but that would be misleading. Like the classic 1976 Martin Scorsese film, Gazé’s Ceci n’est pas un polar — which translates as This Is Not a Thriller — is a drama focusing on a troubled cabbie driving the mean streets of a North American city. But that’s where the comparison ends." He further singled out Dupuis's performance in the film as one of the strongest of his career.^[2]

The film premiered on October 9, 2014 at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur,^[3] and had its Canadian premiere at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival on October 25.^[4]