{"id":593890,"date":"2026-04-10T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593890\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:08:09","slug":"mile-end-kicks-brings-montreals-2010s-indie-grit-to-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593890\/","title":{"rendered":"Mile End Kicks brings Montreal\u2019s 2010s indie grit to the big screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Outremont is premiering Mile End Kicks, a film inspired by Montreal\u2019s Mile End music scene. Written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Chandler Levack, it captures the indie culture of the early 2010s that helped launch artists like Mac DeMarco, Arcade Fire, and Grimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think just what a complicated, beautiful, fascinating cinematic place it is. I mean it\u2019s always been a hotbed for music,\u201d said Chandler Levack, the writer & director of Mile End Kicks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a music critic for ten years of my life, like all through my 20s. And I wrote this story about Grimes and the Montr\u00e9al Music Scene in 2011 for Maisonneuve. And I spoke to like 50 people in Mile-End about the music scene. And I just always think that will be the most compelling reason to move to Mile-End.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Set in the summer of 2011, the film follows a 24-year-old music critic, played by Barbie Ferreira \u2014known for her role in \u2018Euphoria\u2019\u2014\u00a0 who moves to Montreal to write a book\u00a0about Alanis Morissette\u2019s album Jagged Little Pill, but\u00a0she\u00a0gets pulled into the city\u2019s indie rock scene and a complicated love story.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just really fun to kind of get to collaborate with like the filmmaking community in Quebec. It\u2019s very rare that people from Ontario and people from Quebec make a movie together, and so it was kind of fun to like do this exercise in two solitudes filmmaking,\u201d said Levack.<\/p>\n

\"\"Mile End Kicks, a film inspired by Montreal\u2019s Mile End music scene, premiering at Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Outremont. (Johanie Bouffard, CityNews)<\/p>\n

It also features Montreal\u00a0actors Jay Baruchel and\u00a0Juliette Gari\u00e9py. Her\u00a0recent performances have been praised, including for\u00a0the film The Red Rooms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat character allowed me to explore the whole Montreal scene, which I grew up in, and [\u2026] I didn\u2019t realize how iconic it was to actually grow up\u00a0here,\u201d said Juliette Gari\u00e9py, the actor who plays Madeleine in Mile End Kicks.<\/p>\n

\"\"Mile End Kicks, a film inspired by Montreal\u2019s Mile End music scene, premiering at Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Outremont. (Johanie Bouffard, CityNews)<\/p>\n

Set for release in theatres on April 17, the film is already gaining recognition, winning a Sustainable Production Award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just sort of wanted to like, big up the community that we were shooting in, make sure we were shooting in and kind of shouting out local businesses and venues and like real people in the community that really informed this story for me,\u201d said Levack.<\/p>\n

Gari\u00e9py adds, \u201cGo see the movie. It\u2019s coming out on April 17, and Letterbox it, we want it up!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mile End Kicks concert poster (Courtesy: handstamp.com)<\/p>\n

The story doesn\u2019t stop on screen<\/p>\n

A live\u00a0Mile End Kicks\u00a0concert is set for April 24 at Sala Rossa, with Montreal-based artists Nora Kelly Band,\u00a0Last Waltzon, Marontate, and Birds of Prrrey.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Outremont is premiering Mile End Kicks, a film inspired by Montreal\u2019s Mile End music scene. Written and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-593890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}