The Caretaker's Lodge () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Michel Poulette and released in 1997.Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 47. The film stars Serge Dupire as Jacques Laniel, a police officer who quits the force to become a private detective so that he can investigate and solve the murder of his former police partner Thomas Colin (Jacques Godin).Pat Donnelly, "Cop thriller inspires giggles, not chills". Montreal Gazette, August 27, 1997.
The cast also includes Macha Grenon, Monique Spaziani, Tania Kontoyanni, Jean-René Ouellet, Michel Forget, Raymond Cloutier, Paul Dion, Carl Béchard, Maka Kotto, Dorothée Berryman, Marie-Claude Lefebvre, Isabel Richer, David La Haye, Eric Cabana, Lenie Scoffié, Paul Buissonneau, Caroline Néron, JiCi Lauzon, Guy Provost, Andrée Champagne, Claude Léveillée and Bianca Gervais in supporting roles.
The screenplay was written by Poulette and journalist and crime novelist Benoît Dutrizac.Louise Carrière, "Un flic chez les monstres". Ciné-Bulles, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Winter 1998). pp. 30-33.
The film premiered at the 1997 Montreal World Film Festival,Ray Conlogue, "Two Canadian films compete in Montreal film festival: Michel Poulette's La Conciergerie and Olivier Asselin's The Seat of the Soul vie for Grand Prix with 19 others". The Globe and Mail, August 6, 1997. where it won the award for Best Canadian Film.John Griffin, "Iranian movie takes top honours at film festival: Children of Heaven wins jury prize and public vote". Ottawa Citizen, September 3, 1997.
Marcel Pothier, Guy Francoeur, Antoine Morin, Viateur Paiement and Myriam Poirier received a Genie Award nomination for Best Sound Editing at the 18th Genie Awards in 1998.Doug Saunders, "Egoyan film leads Genie race: The Sweet Hereafter picks up nominations for Canada's film awards". The Globe and Mail, November 5, 1997.
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