Cardboard City

Cardboard City (2025)

Ville Jacques-Carton

Against the voracious concrete and a ruthless developer, a poet stands tall, the last bulwark against oblivion, like a Gaul defying Caesar. He gathers voices from the past, revives memories, and weaves an ode to Ville Jacques-Cartier's working-class heritage, a haven where hopes and struggles once echoed.

Date of release
2025-09-05
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Documentary
Director
André Forcier, Jean-Marc E. Roy

Casting

Interesting facts

Cardboard City is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by André Forcier and Jean-Marc E. Roy, and released in 2025. The film stars poet Jean-Marc Desgent as a fictionalized version of himself, who refuses to sell his run-down home in Longueuil, Quebec, to a real estate developer who wants to demolish the entire block to build a new, generic modern suburban housing development, with Desgent subsequently exploring the real history of Longueuil's 1969 annexation of Ville Jacques-Cartier.

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