The Hidden Fortress (2001 film)
2001 film
The Hidden Fortress (French: La Forteresse suspendue) is a Canadian children's comedy film, directed by Roger Cantin and released in 2001. Part of Rock Demers's Tales for All (Contes pour tous) series of children's films, the film centres on two groups of rival children playing war games while spending summer vacation with their families at cottages on a lake, which are complicated when the leader of the losing team resorts to detaining prisoners of war in a desperate attempt to win the game.
The cast includes Matthew Dupuis, Roxanne Gaudette-Loiseau, Jérôme Leclerc-Couture, Jean-Philippe Debien, Charli Arcouette-Martineau, Xavier Dolan, Laurent-Christophe De Ruelle, Jeremy Gagnon, Carmina Senosier, Émilie Cyrenne-Parent, Serge-Olivier Paquette, Hugo Dubé, Georges Brossard, Patrick Labbé, Isabelle Cyr, Gaston Caron, Fayolle Jean and Mireille Métellus.
Although not officially billed as a sequel to the earlier film, some of the children's parents were participants in the events of The Dog Who Stopped the War (La Guerre des tuques).
Production
The film was shot in fall 2000, in and around Sainte-Sophie, Quebec.
Critical response
Kathryn Greenaway of the Montreal Gazette wrote that "there is nothing so chilling as watching children resort to interpretations of disturbing adult behaviour. And so we watch Marc - lurking in shadow and camouflage face paint - take prisoners of war. He threatens them with torture and humiliation. His clanmates snicker. Things go from bad to worse when it is discovered that Indian chief Julian (Jerome Leclerc-Couture) and Marc's sister Sarah (Roxane Gaudette-Loiseau) have fallen for each other.
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