The Caretaker's Lodge

The Caretaker's Lodge (French: La Conciergerie) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Michel Poulette and released in 1997.^[1] The film stars Serge Dupire as Jacques Laniel, a police officer who quits the force to become a private detective so that he can investigate and solve the murder of his former police partner Thomas Colin (Jacques Godin).^[2]

The Caretaker's Lodge
French	La Conciergerie
Directed by	Michel Poulette
Written by	Benoît Dutrizac Michel Poulette
Produced by	Christian Larouche Luc Vandal
Starring	Serge Dupire Macha Grenon Jacques Godin
Cinematography	Yves Bélanger
Edited by	Éric Drouin
Music by	Jean-Marie Benoît
Production company	Cinépix
Release date	August 26, 1997 (1997-08-26) (FFM)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

The cast also includes Macha Grenon, Monique Spaziani, Tania Kontoyanni, Jean-René Ouellet, Michel Forget, Raymond Cloutier, Paul Dion, Carl Béchard, Maka Kotto, Dorothée Berryman, Marie-Claude Lefebvre, Isabel Richer, David La Haye, Eric Cabana, Lenie Scoffié, Paul Buissonneau, Caroline Néron, JiCi Lauzon, Guy Provost, Andrée Champagne, Claude Léveillée and Bianca Gervais in supporting roles.

The screenplay was written by Poulette and journalist and crime novelist Benoît Dutrizac.^[3]

The film premiered at the 1997 Montreal World Film Festival,^[4] where it won the award for Best Canadian Film.^[5]

Marcel Pothier, Guy Francoeur, Antoine Morin, Viateur Paiement and Myriam Poirier received a Genie Award nomination for Best Sound Editing at the 18th Genie Awards in 1998.^[6]