If you've ever felt nostalgic about a Montréal which no longer exists- one where live underground venues thrived and everyone was in indie rock bands- Toronto director Chandler Levack has just the movie for you.
Filmed in Montréal and starring Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick, Juliette Gariépy and local musician Magi Merlin, Mile End Kicks is a romantic comedy in which music takes a central role. As the Sumerian Pictures website describes the movie:
A 24-year-old music critic gets romantically involved with members of an indie band she decides to publicize, set against Montreal’s indie music scene in 2011. Based in part on Chandler Levack’s own young adulthood prior to becoming a professional music critic and filmmaker, the film stars Barbie Ferreira as Grace Pine, a young woman who moves to Montreal, Quebec, with the goal of writing a book about Alanis Morissette’s album Jagged Little Pill but instead becomes romantically involved with Archi (Devon Bostick) and Chevy (Stanley Simons), two members of the aspiring indie rock band Bone Patrol, and takes a job as the band’s publicist.
The film, which premiered at TIFF last year, is out in theaters throughout North America starting April 17.
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