Beneath the Surface (French: Le Lac des hommes, lit.
"The Lake of Men") is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Marie-Geneviève Chabot and released in 2021.
[1] An exploration of modern masculinity, the film centres on Laurent Sirois, a man who is on a fishing trip with his sons Jean-Pierre, Stéphane and Jérôme, who are all dealing with their complicated relationship after his separation and divorce from their mother largely removed him from their childhood.
[1] It was later screened at the 2022 Canadian Film Festival,[3] where Chabot won the DGC Ontario award for best director,[4] and at the 2022 Festival de films d’auteurs de Val-Morin.
[2] André Lavoie of Le Devoir compared the film to The Shimmering Beast (La bête lumineuse), Pierre Perrault's influential 1982 documentary about male friendship on a hunting trip.