| Beneath the Surface | |
| Native Name: | |
| Director: | Marie-Geneviève Chabot |
| Producer: | Marie-Geneviève Chabot |
| Starring: | Laurent Sirois Jean-Pierre Sirois Stéphane Sirois Jérôme Sirois |
| Cinematography: | Karine van Ameringen |
| Editing: | Natalie Lamoureux |
| Studio: | Les Films de l'autre |
| Distributor: | Les Films du 3 mars |
| Runtime: | 75 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | French |
Beneath the Surface (fr|Le Lac des hommes, lit. "The Lake of Men") is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Marie-Geneviève Chabot and released in 2021.[1] An exploration of modern masculinity, the film centres on Laurent Sirois, a man who is on a fishing trip with his sons Jean-Pierre, Stéphane and Jérôme, who are all dealing with their complicated relationship after his separation and divorce from their mother largely removed him from their childhood.[2]
The film premiered at the 2021 Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma.[1] It was later screened at the 2022 Canadian Film Festival,[3] where Chabot won the DGC Ontario award for best director,[4] and at the 2022 Festival de films d’auteurs de Val-Morin.[5]
It went into commercial release in June 2022.[2]
André Lavoie of Le Devoir compared the film to The Shimmering Beast (La bête lumineuse), Pierre Perrault's influential 1982 documentary about male friendship on a hunting trip.[2]