Film Review: LA DISPARITION DES LUCIOLES (THE FIREFLIES ARE GONE) (Canada 2018) ***

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A frustrated teenager frees herself from her mother’s influence and her narrow life in a small industrial town to find out who she really is.

Warning: This review contains a spoiler in its plot point.  The spoiler occurs int h second last paragraph of the review.

At the start of the film, a radio show host Paul (Francois Papineau) announces on the radio that due to some unknown mysterious reason that have puzzled scientists and everyone else, all the fireflies are disappeared.  The fireflies are obviously a metaphor for something in the film which will be revealed in the second last paragraph of the review in italics.  Spoiler Alert: Skip reading the second last paragraph italics but the spoiler is included as it is crucial in the film’s critique.

The film’s best segment occurs at…

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