UNDERGROUND

TBC FILM

OUT 20 AUGUST CINEMAS, DIGITAL HD

The subterranean space in question is a gold mine in rural Quebec, where volatile young miner Maxime (Joakim Robillard) remains guilt-ridden about a drink-driving accident a year before, which left his friend and colleague Julien (Théodore Pellerin) with a brain injury and the victim’s father and fellow worker (James Hyndman’s Mario) seeking retribution. Built around a mine-rescue operation, FrenchCanadian writer-director Sophie Dupuis’ uneven malerelationships drama sustains its claustrophobic mood well enough, yet is strangely lacking in emotional resonance. Tom Dawson