The Noise of Engines

Sep 21, 2021

1h 19m

★ 6.7

Overview

Alexandre, an instructor at the Canadian customs college, returns home to his small town after his employer places him on compulsory leave. As he forms a new friendship with a female Icelandic drag racer, he finds himself under surveillance by police investigators trying to get to the bottom of the sexually explicit drawings that have been troubling the town.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

G11C

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Cast

Alexandre

Robert Naylor

Aðalbjörg

Tanja Björk Ómarsdóttir

Laura

Naïla Rabel

Johanne

Marie-Thérèse Fortin

Directrice

Alexandrine Agostini

Letellier

Marc Beaupré

Rémillard

Maxime Genois

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