Chandler Levack’s latest, the Canadian romcom Mile End Kicks, hit cinemas on April 17th. It will have its long awaited US premiere at SXSW before that. The film’s distributor Sumerian Pictures has sent out a whopper of a gallery of BTS images today. Travel back fiteen years, to 2011 Montreal, down below.
A 24-year-old music critic gets romantically involved with members of an indie band she decides to publicize, set against Montreal’s 2011 indie music scene.
From Director/Writer Chandler Levack and starring Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick, Stanley Simons, and Juliette Gariépy, MILE END KICKS hits theaters April 17, 2026.
From Chandler Levack, the acclaimed director of I Like Movies, comes her sophomore feature MILE END KICKS, which world premiered at TIFF and will have its US premiere at SXSW. Set within Montreal’s 2011 indie music scene and featuring an ensemble cast including Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick, Stanley Simons, Juliette Gariépy, and Jay Baruchel.
Our own Shelagh caught Mile End Kicks when it premiered at TIFF last year. A resident of Montreal themselves there was no one better suited than Shelagh to take on the task of reviewing Levack’s sophomore feature film.
Levack proves once again that she has a unique and deft hand for comedy, with its two most important cinematic points: dialogue, and timing. This includes one of the most brilliantly-filmed awkward sex scenes ever put to film…
With a vibrant palette, a terrific soundtrack, Mile End Kicks (is) a worthy entry to contemporary romcoms, one that acknowledges sex, queerness, money troubles, sexism, how any of us can get caught in the trap of not knowing our own worth, and learning to embrace our love, our anger, and our talent.
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