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Montreal 2013 Dina Mendes artist and the daughter French criminal superstar Jacques Mesrine had from an affair in 1970 returns to Montreal and looks for her fathers traces She embarks on this search with both personal quest and artistic project in mind The film shifts from fiction conventions to cinemavérité particularly in Percé where the project reaches its momentum In the end Dina Mendes ends up achieving neither the personal quest nor a meaningful artistic project caught between overexposed facts and an impossible identification Nonetheless what this odd film in which you will never see or hear Mesrine once does achieve is to provide a Québec perspective onto a history that is so central to French popular culture