An affectionate, clear-sighted portrait of an unclassifiable artist”.
Francine Laurendeau, La revue Ciné-bulles

« Extraordinary… a discovery of the highest order »
John Griffin, The Montreal Gazette

Playing the enigma card to the hilt, “a few leads to investigate” are set out to try to understand the painter, his “fascination with catastrophes”, and his work, “at once so marvelous and so terrifying”, before the man in question, born in 1917, speaks directly to the camera at the very end, revealing the secret of his art himself. The film's slow pace, appropriate to the movements of this “nomad of the imaginary world”, responds to the swirling, dramatic and sometimes frightening painted images, preferring the image of a tortured painter to that of a comical delinquent. Short on chronology and discourse on painting (too much so?), the film feeds us with the painter's dreamlike canvases and explains, without unnecessarily inflating them with myth, the existential choices made by the painter.

Bernard Lamarche, Le Devoir, Montréal