After debuting at the December 2020 Whistler Film Festival, director Sophie Dupuis’ mining disaster movie, Underground, is now being released on a limited basis in the U.K.
Underground tells the story of Max (Joakim Robillard) a miner who’s looking for redemption after causing a car accident that leaves his best friend (Théodore Pellerin) paralyzed. He gets his chance when he takes it upon himself to try to save his colleagues after an underground explosion at the mine.
This is the second feature that Dupuis wrote and directed—her debut was the award-winning Family First—and perhaps this one is more personal, given that she grew up in a mining family herself.
The rest of the cast includes Jean-François Boudreau (La Bolduc) and Guillaume Cyr (L’Imposteur), and Bravo Charlie produced the movie.
No word yet on a US release.
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