Matroni and Me
1999 · 101 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 349 VOTES · DIR. Jean-Philippe Duval
Overview
Gilles meets Guylaine on a beach. He's a bookish scholar with glasses; she's a waitress in a blue-collar bar in a rough part of Montreal. Gilles comes for a visit... Guylaine's brother Bob works for the brutal gangster Matroni. Two toughs have hijacked a tractor-trailer full of stolen car parts that Matroni was about to deliver to an even worse gangster, Boyd. Boyd is very dangerous and he wants those parts. Guylaine's friend Linda knows the hijackers and has left their names with her mum in a letter. The thugs have gotten to Bob and beaten him up, so that means only one person can take the letter to Matroni at his autowrecking yard, polite and courteous Gilles...
Dialogue Timeline — 1,294 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:23 - Here we go...
00:03:56 Life... makes no sense.
00:09:19 - Gilles, this is my brother Bob.
00:12:13 My brother Bob quit grade school a year before l did.
00:17:22 The fat pig and Bob'll be after us.
00:21:18 - Yes.
00:24:44 Or it'll not be just them double-crossers
00:28:56 Hmm-hmm...
00:34:37 - That's too simple. - lt's what you think!
00:38:23 - Okay, everyone doesn't get the same chance in life.
00:42:36 No need to weight anyone here.
00:47:03 - Gilles...
00:51:28 - Thanks, girl.
00:55:07 to compromise!
00:58:11 l mean, fuck
01:01:54 - l'll be right back. Don't move!
01:08:33 Now you're stuck! Back up!
01:13:04 lt did me some good with young ladies.
01:17:01 to a generation that took social matters
01:21:15 - Mr Matroni... - Yes, sir.
01:25:28 - Martin Heidegger and Baruch Spinoza.
01:28:34 Bob, got your gun? - Yes, boss.
01:34:18 Breathe in their clear air...
01:40:26 Et moi