| The Men | |
| Native Name: | |
| Director: | Gilles Carle |
| Producer: | Louise Ranger |
| Starring: | Donald Pilon René Blouin Andrée Pelletier |
| Music: | Stéphane Venne |
| Cinematography: | René Verzier |
| Editing: | Gilles Carle |
| Studio: | Onyx Films |
| Distributor: | France Film |
| Runtime: | 113 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | French |
The Men (French: Les Mâles) is a Canadian crime comedy film, written and directed by Gilles Carle and released in 1971.[1] The film centres on Jean (Donald Pilon) and Émile (René Blouin), a lumberjack and a student who have been living off the grid in the wilderness, who decide that they need a woman to join them and head into town to look for one.[2] They resort to kidnapping Dolores (Katerine Mousseau), a prison guard who is the daughter of the village police chief, leading the villagers to mount a vigilante mob to capture Jean and Émile and bring them to justice.[3]
The film's cast also includes Andrée Pelletier and Guy L'Écuyer.
Martin Knelman of The Globe and Mail reviewed the film favourably, writing that "At his most brilliant, Carle achieves a form of comedy that's part Rabelaisian and part Keystone Kops, but just under the surface of slapstick raucousness there's a sense of desperation, of despair on the brink of violence and defeat. This double-sighted attitude is what gives Carle's movies their peculiar comic edge and their self-propelling energy."[3]
The film was seen by 302,950 people in France.