The Noise of Engines

Keywords

  • Award Winning
  • Creatives: Debut Films
  • Philippe Grégoire
  • quirky
  • relationship
  • Screen: Canada
  • small town
  • Sooner Europe Exclusives: Stories that Matter
  • Sooner Exclusives
  • sport
  • Storyline: Sons
  • work

Actors

  • Robert Naylor
  • Tanja Björk Ómarsdóttir
  • Naïla Rabel
  • Marie-Thérèse Fortin
  • Alexandrine Agostini

Director

  • Philippe Grégoire

Drama, Comedy

1h 19min

16+

Canada
2021

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Alexandre, a customs weapons instructor, returns to his hometown to pass time during his unjustified suspension. An accident during consensual sex had put his colleague in the hospital. At the local racetrack, owned by his mother, he meets the mysterious Icelandic drag racer Aðalbjörg.

Alexandre, a customs weapons instructor, returns to his hometown to pass time during his unjustified suspension. An accident during consensual sex had put his colleague in the hospital. At the local racetrack, owned by his mother, he meets the mysterious Icelandic drag racer Aðalbjörg.


At the same time, Alexandre is under investigation because a number of sexually explicit drawings that bear a striking resemblance to him appear on the door of a local church.


THE NOISE OF ENGINES is semi-autobiographical: director Philippe Grégoire financed his debut feature with money he earned as a part-time customs officer in a small town on the Canada-US border.

Cast & Crew