A rural Cajun community reckons with a 30-year-old double murder. Is this folk justice or a travesty of justice?
Filmmaker and crawfisherman Louis Leger (Roy Dupuis) and criminal defense attorney Dolores Arceneaux (Myriam Cyr) join forces in the Cajun prairie community of Pointe Noire in an effort to save the life of Joel Richard (Michael Bienvenu), a falsely accused man on Louisiana's Death Row. What follows is a search to find out what really happened 30 years ago when two people were killed on the night of the traditional courir de Mardi Gras. Along the way, Louis and Dolores uncover a hauntingly beautiful, isolated community suffering from genetic bottlenecking, secrecy and deceit, yet striving to achieve its own form of folk justice. Drama, 1 hr 47 mins., NR.
The screening will be held in Theater 1, RFC’s 124-seat capacity theater, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Pat Mire.