''Cadavres'' is a Canadian comedy thriller film, directed by

Érik Canuel Érik Canuel (born 1961) is a film director and actor from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Canuel, the son of actor Yvan Canuel, began his career in the mid-1980s making music videos for such artists as Paul Piché, Sass Jordan, Norman Iceberg, Vil ...

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.

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

Release

The film was released February 20, 2009. It received mixed criticism and failed to create substantial revenue at the box-office.Journal de Montréal
, March 2009

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Érik Canuel returns with Cadavres
2009 films Canadian thriller films Films directed by Érik Canuel 2009 thriller films French-language Canadian films 2000s Canadian films {{2000s-Canada-film-stub