Living 100 MPH

{{Short description|2019 Canadian drama film}} {{Infobox film | name = Living 100 MPH | native_name = {{Infobox name module|fr|Vivre à 100 milles à l'heure}} | image = Vivre_a_onezerozero_milles_a_lheure.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = [[Louis Bélanger]] | producer = François Tremblay | writer = Louis Bélanger | starring = Rémi Goulet<br>[[Antoine L'Écuyer]] | music = Guy Bélanger<br>Claude Fradette | cinematography = [[Pierre Mignot]] | editing = Claude Palardy | studio = Lyla Films | distributor = | runtime = 104 minutes | released = {{film date|2019|08|21|[[Angoulême Francophone Film Festival|Angoulême]]}} | country = Canada | language = French | budget = }} '''''Living 100 MPH''''' ({{langx|fr|Vivre à 100 milles à l'heure}}) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by [[Louis Bélanger]] and released in 2019.<ref name=lussier>{{ill|Marc-André Lussier|fr}}, [https://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/critiques/2019-09-27/vivre-a-100-milles-a-l-heure-une-habile-reconstitution-sans-magie "Vivre à 100 milles à l'heure : une habile reconstitution, sans magie…"]. ''[[La Presse (Canadian newspaper)|La Presse]]'', September 27, 2020.</ref> A semi-autobiographical film, it centres on the coming-of-age of three friends, Louis, Daniel and Éric, from their early teens in the late 1970s, when they begin dealing [[drugs]] in their school, through to their young adulthood in the 1990s, when Louis discovers his passion and talent for photography.<ref>Charles-Henri Ramond, [https://www.filmsquebec.com/films/vivre-100-milles-heure-louis-belanger/ "Vivre à 100 milles à l’heure – Film de Louis Bélanger"]. ''Films du Québec'', September 18, 2019.</ref>

Louis is portrayed by Matt Hébert as a child, Elijah Patrice-Baudelot as a teenager, and Rémi Goulet as a young adult. Daniel is portrayed by Nicolas Guay as a child, Zakary Methot as a teenager, and [[Antoine L'Écuyer]] as an adult. Éric, who first appears as a teenager, is portrayed by Dylan Walsh as a teenager and Félix-Antoine Cantin as an adult.

The film premiered at the [[Angoulême Francophone Film Festival]] in August 2019.<ref name=duchesne>André Duchesne, [https://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/2019-08-02/le-prochain-film-de-louis-belanger-au-fcvq "Le prochain film de Louis Bélanger au FCVQ"]. ''[[La Presse (Canadian newspaper)|La Presse]]'', August 2, 2019.</ref> It had its Canadian premiere in September at the [[Quebec City Film Festival]],<ref name=duchesne/> where it won the Prix du Public,<ref name=vivre>Cédric Bélanger, [https://www.journaldequebec.com/2019/09/23/fcvq-le-public-craque-pour-vivre-a-100-milles-a-lheure "FCVQ: Le public craque pour Vivre à 100 milles à l’heure"]. ''[[Le Journal de Québec]]'', September 23, 2019.</ref> before opening commercially on September 27.<ref>Cédric Bélanger, [https://www.journaldequebec.com/2019/09/19/je-savais-que-javais-un-don-pour-raconter-des-histoires "«Je savais que j’avais un don pour raconter des histoires» : Le cinéaste Louis Bélanger revisite sa jeunesse dans Vivre à 100 milles à l’heure"]. ''[[Le Journal de Québec]]'', September 19, 2019.</ref>

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[[Category:2019 films]] [[Category:2019 drama films]] [[Category:Canadian coming-of-age comedy-drama films]] [[Category:Films directed by Louis Bélanger]] [[Category:Films shot in Quebec City]] [[Category:Films set in Quebec City]] [[Category:French-language Canadian films]] [[Category:2019 Canadian films]]