The second feature film by Quebec filmmaker Katherine Jerkovic (Roads in February), the coyotetells the story of Camilo (Jorge Martinez Colorado), a Montrealer in his fifties of Mexican origin who wants to find work as a chef after having to close his restaurant, Le coyote, a decade earlier.
Camilo, a solitary bachelor, does housework at night and sends CVs during the day, which often go unanswered. We gradually guess the reasons for his setbacks when his drug addict daughter, Tania (Eva Avila), with whom he has broken ties, introduces him to his grandson, whom he did not know existed. Tania would like to entrust it to him while she undertakes a new rehab. However, Camilo receives at the same time an interesting proposal from a restaurant owner he knows in La Malbaie.
Reflection on life, with all its contingencies, its obstacles, and the choices that open up new trajectories, the coyote is the sensitive, poetic and poignant portrait of characters and realities that we still see too little in our cinema.
Katherine Jerkovic’s sober and naturalistic production, which favors the sequence shot, is without artifice or stylistic effects, consistent with its story and the environment it depicts. His screenplay, without fuss, is made of silences, ellipses and things left unsaid.
Jorge Martinez Colorado, revealed in the series Raspberry time, by Philippe Falardeau, aptly embodies the character of Camilo, an immigrant torn between his professional future and his new responsibilities as a grandfather. The comedian won Best Actor at the most recent Whistler Film Festival, where the coyote won Best Canadian Film.
Indoors
Drama
the coyote
Katherine Jerkovic
Jorge Martinez Colorado, Eva Avila, Enzo Desmeules
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