SYNOPSIS
CONFESSIONS OF A HITMAN, directed by and starring Genie Award-winner Luc Picard and inspired by the best-selling novel, “Gallant: Confessions of a Hitman”, tells the incredible true story of one of the most prolific hitmen of our time, a paid assassin who worked for the biker gangs of Quebec from 1978-2003. Yet with twenty- eight murders and 12 attempted murders across 25 years, Gérald Gallant (Picard) surprised and confused. How did a stuttering “average Joe” with fragile health and a modest IQ, living a conventional lower-middle-class life with a deeply religious wife in a quiet neighborhood, manage to outsmart both the most hardened criminals and the smartest lawmen for decades while continuing to ply his “trade”?
In CONFESSIONS OF A HITMAN, which captured Best Director at the Whistler Film Festival and a trio of Canadian Screen Award nominations, Picard has constructed a true-life Canadian classic, one that captures a time and a place in Quebec’s history where biker gangs terrorized the streets, and society had moved away from the traditional constraints of the Catholic church. The banality of evil has never been more forcefully depicted.
CONFESSIONS OF A HITMAN (2022)
Directed by: Luc Picard
Written by: Sylvain Guy
Cast: Luc Picard, David La Haye, Sandrine Bisson, Luc Picard, Éveline Gélinas
Produced by: Christian Larouche
Director of Photography: Francois Dutil
Genre: Crime/Drama/World Cinema
RT: 109 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 2.39: 1
Sound: 5.1 Dolby Digital
Language: French and English with English Subtitles
