{{Short description|2014 Canadian drama film}} {{Infobox film | name = Stranger in a Cab | native_name = {{Infobox name module|fr|Ceci n'est pas un polar}} | image = 169 Ceci n'est pas un polar Fr.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = Patrick Gazé | producer = Louisa Déry<br>Michèle Grondin | writer = Patrick Gazé | starring = Roy Dupuis<br>Christine Beaulieu | music = | cinematography = Jean-François Lord | editing = Patrick Gazé | studio = Productions Mi-Lou | distributor = K-Films Amérique | runtime = 119 minutes | released = {{film date|2014|10|09|}} | country = Canada | language = French | budget = }} '''''Stranger in a Cab''''' ({{langx|fr|Ceci n'est pas un polar}}, lit. "This is not a thriller") is a Canadian drama film, directed by Patrick Gazé and released in 2014.<ref name=rodgers>Caroline Rodgers, [https://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/nouvelles/entrevues/201410/25/01-4812597-ceci-nest-pas-un-polar-une-enquete-amoureuse.php "Ceci n'est pas un polar: une enquête amoureuse"]. ''La Presse'', October 26, 2014.</ref> The film stars Roy Dupuis as André Kosinski, a lonely taxi driver in Montreal who begins a passionate affair with Marianne (Christine Beaulieu) after she is a passenger in his cab, only to become concerned that she may have been involved in a crime.<ref name=kelly>Brendan Kelly, [https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/arts/movie-review-ceci-nest-pas-un-polar "Movie review: Ceci n'est pas un polar"]. ''Montreal Gazette'', October 30, 2014.</ref>
Brendan Kelly of the ''Montreal Gazette'' reviewed the film positively, writing that "You could call writer-director Patrick Gazé’s debut feature a Québécois ''Taxi Driver'' but that would be misleading. Like the classic 1976 Martin Scorsese film, Gazé’s Ceci n’est pas un polar — which translates as This Is Not a Thriller — is a drama focusing on a troubled cabbie driving the mean streets of a North American city. But that’s where the comparison ends." He further singled out Dupuis's performance in the film as one of the strongest of his career.<ref name=kelly/>
The film premiered on October 9, 2014 at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur,<ref>[https://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/cinema-quebecois/201409/18/01-4801462-ceci-nest-pas-un-polar-en-selection-officielle-a-namur.php "Ceci n'est pas un polar en sélection officielle à Namur"]. ''La Presse'', September 18, 2014.</ref> and had its Canadian premiere at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival on October 25.<ref>[https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/690938/festival-cinema-international-abitibi-temiscamingue-film-premiere-polar-gaze-roy-dupuis "Le Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue s'ouvre avec le film Ceci n'est pas un polar"]. Ici Radio-Canada Abitibi-Témiscamingue, October 26, 2014.</ref>
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Category:2014 films Category:2014 drama films Category:Canadian drama films Category:Quebec films Category:Films shot in Montreal Category:Films set in Montreal Category:French-language Canadian films Category:2014 Canadian films
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