The Fight

Name: Le ring
Genre: Drama
Released: 2007-10-14
Duration: 1 h 27 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Maxime Desjardins-Tremblay, Maxime Dumontier, Julianne Côté

Original title: Le ring

2007
1h 27m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

247

YOUR RATING

Drama

A coming-of-age saga set in the slums of Montreal as a young boy comes to grips with the temptations of the street while hopelessly aspiring to become a professional wrestler.A coming-of-age saga set in the slums of Montreal as a young boy comes to grips with the temptations of the street while hopelessly aspiring to become a professional wrestler.A coming-of-age saga set in the slums of Montreal as a young boy comes to grips with the temptations of the street while hopelessly aspiring to become a professional wrestler.

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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

247

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins & 1 nomination

Trivia
The face of Jessy's mother is never seen. She is always either out of focus or seen from behind.

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Featured review

9/10

Yet another stunning film from Quebec which has had little or no release outside of Francophone Canada.

Jessy, age 12, dreams of becoming a wrestler. Already, life is a daily fight; home is chaotic and his innocence is quickly disappearing. Reality hits hard in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, a poor area of Montreal, but it can't compete with the Friday night wrestling that gives Jessy the courage to escape his destiny. "Le Ring" tells the story of a little fighter determined to make his own way.

Maxime Desjardins-Tremblay effortlessly plays the lost soul Jessy in his acting debut; he is from the same neighbourhood where the story is set, perhaps giving him the ease before the camera one would expect from a veteran performer.

Tough, gritty, and sometimes difficult to watch, "Le Ring" takes the viewer deep into an alien world that is in reality only a few miles away Much of the dialogue seems to be in Joual, the urban dialect of Montreal, which is also a rarity in film. (Think "Glasgow English")