Rodrigue Jean

Director

Films on MUBI

Yellowknife by Rodrigue Jean is a classic Canadian noir that filters the dark margins of desire and obsession from David Lynch's work (Lost Highway, Wild at Heart) with Monte Hellman and Chris Petit into a distilled brew that lingers with age. It's a film that's less about the landscape of the North but more about the Canadian search for home in it in the shadows of impenetrable forest and remoteness. Sexuality burns against this scrim -- between the characters including a pair of male stripping twins and the brother and sister looking for a new life -- but can it contain the heat? A remarkable and rarely seen work that also features New Brunswick's diva Patsy Gallant as a soulful torch nightclub singer.