L'oreille d'un sourd (1996)

• 59%
• 1996
• Komödie
• Marcel Sabourin
• Micheline Lanctôt
• Paul Hébert

Hat philandering wife and a sleazy womanizing con-man team up to off a troublesome father-in-law in this acid-tinged German Canadian black comedy. Leon, the con-artist makes his living cheating Catholic bingo players by hosting bogus religious pilgrimages. He is involved with a woman, but that doesn 't stop him from getting involved with the frustrated Sophie who hates" living in a tiny apartment with her lazy husband her ever-gloomy teenage daughter and her husband's demanding", "self-centered" father, Emile. Sophie is so desperate to escape and start a new life that she convinces Leon to help kill her Emile who allegedly has $150,000 tucked away. The murder is to occur during one of Leon ' s pilgrimages. He convinces his son, Paolo, an ex-con, to assist. Despite their careful planning, nothing prepares the would-be killers for the überraschenden ergebnis.