Alicia I love this movie so much

Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

sborj My comment is very biased. I am from Baie-Comeau, but I left the town 10 years ago. Watching the movie on TV was just an excuse to have a glimpse of the nice Côte-Nord scenery. To me, it was like a game...trying to find where each scene was shot. The very short cemetery scene was filmed in my home village! (Pointe-aux-Outardes) To me, it was a good opportunity to see some familiar landscapes.I liked the movie very much. As usual, Pascale Bussières does an incredible job. However, like a few other viewers, I was left with the feeling that a lot of my questions remained unanswered at the end of the movie. I would have liked to get clear answers to all the "unusual" phenomena that occur in the movie. Finally, it was nice to see Geneviève Bujold back on the screen! I always wondered what had happened to her since I saw "Anne of the Thousand Days" as a teenager. Bravo Manon Briand! Continue ton beau travail!

babecat This movie was announced in the Gothenburg film festival catalog as "a philosophical thriller", something that caught my eye as being quite a mix...This is a movie that surprises and gives more than you expect. Mysterious, sexy, unpredictable. I suspect though that this type of movie doesn't appeal to everyone, one has to be open for the mysterious part of it, and let go of control, not trying to set up in your mind what you think the movie ought to be. Instead, keep an open mind. This mind-turning movie is quite an experience!

Howard Schumann In the warm and humorous Quebecois film, Chaos and Desire, shown at last year's Vancouver Film Festival, Alice Bradley, played by the lovely Pascale Bussieres, is a seismologist working in Japan studying the factors that can predict earthquakes. When the tides mysteriously stop flowing on the St. Lawrence River in her hometown of Baie Comeau, she returns to investigate and comes up against the bizarre behavior of local residents. In one instance, a little Chinese girl (Ji-Yan Séguin) sleepwalks every night at the exact same time. In others, a woman chops down every tree in her front yard, and the phone number of a fire-fighting pilot named Marc Vandal (Jean-Nicolas Verreault) has been ripped out of every phone book in town. Running from a troubled past and consumed by loneliness, Alice must now deal not only with the problem of the tides but with a growing involvement with Vandal and the not so subtle advances of her journalist friend Catherine (Julie Gayet). When Alice uncovers the film's central mystery, the presumed drowning of Vandal's wife, the investigation turns away from science to the world of spirit and achieves a resolution of surprising power.

wse A beautiful, thought-provoking and sexy film about what happens when a seismologist returns to her home town to investigate the mysterious cessation of the tide.This movie surprised and intrigued me. I never knew where it was going, but I was satisfied by where it took me. The opening sequence alone (set in Tokyo) was worth the price of admission. Funny and tragic at the same moment.I can see why Pascal Bussiere is a star in Quebec. She brings us into her story even as her character holds the world at arm's length. When she began to feel the effects of the tidal disturbance, I felt them too.I found director Manon Briand articulate and charming when she came to the Vancouver International Film Festival, but by then I had already seen and fallen in love with her movie.This one is definitely worth watching.