Best of MTL 2021: Film & Arts in Montreal – Cult MTL

The top local film of the year is La Desse des mouches feu, a 90s Saguenay-set coming of age story that avoids the afterschool-special pitfalls of the genre its the story of a teenage freefall into hedonism, based on a novel by Genevive Pettersen. Its popularity with our readers pushed its director Anas Barbeau-Lavalette to #4 Best Filmmaker, a category topped once again by Denis Villeneuve, whose Dune adaptation has been a victim of COVID delays but will finally come out in theatres on Oct. 1. Not surprisingly, Old Montreals pimped out gallery/Virtual Reality hub came out on top in the new Best Multidisciplinary Art Space category, while Best Visual Artist (also new) features multifaceted visual/sound artist Marc Gagnon, graphic designer Pony, street artist Stikki Peaches as well as two artists whose work is currently on display at the MMFA, Caroline Monnet and Manuel Mathieu.

See all the Best of MTL 2021 Top 5 lists in the Juneissueof Cult MTL.

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Best of MTL 2021: Film & Arts in Montreal - Cult MTL