Rock Paper Scissors (2013)

Interesting facts

• Filmed in: Montreal

Rock Paper Scissors is a 2013 Canadian thriller film from Québec directed by Yan Lanouette Turgeon, which he co-wrote with André Gulluni. The third film to be produced by Camera Oscura, producer Christine Falco described it as a work of hyperlink cinema. Lanouette Turgeon's debut feature is the story of three men—Boucane (Samian), Lorenzo, and Vincent —whose lives are brought together through a strange sequence of events.

Production

The director and his co-writer began working on Rock Paper Scissors after they had produced a pair of successful short films, Papillons noirs and Le revenant, after which Gulluni approached Lanouette Turgeon with a title and an idea for three different films which would be linked by their supporting characters; they quickly realized they could make a single feature if they worked hard enough on the script.

The idea for the Aboriginal story was occurred shortly after Lanouette Turgeon met Algonquin rapper Samian at a film festival in France in 2005. The character was inspired directly from his own life: like Boucane, Samian left the First Nations reserve of Pikogan (near Amos) with a sack on his back to try his luck in Montréal, working regular jobs before making his name in music.

To find an Italian francophone actor who was also the right age to play Lorenzo, the team went to France and held auditions, there being relatively few such actors in Québec. When veteran Italian stage and film actor Remo Girone auditioned for the part, Lanouette Turgeon knew immediately he had found the right actor; then, Girone's wife, Victoria Zinny, came in carrying a few DVDs of Girone's previous films, and the director asked if they would m…

Roy Dupuis was on board as soon as he had read the script. He liked the idea of the film starting with an Aboriginal in the "Grand Nord" moving slowly towards the cosmopolitan city of Montréal where everyone is just trying to get by. Dupuis considers the film daring and genuinely poetic.

In writing the story of Boucane and his trip with Normand, Lanouette Turgeon immediately thought of Roger Léger to play him. Léger called it a great and nuanced character.

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