Pale Face (French: Visage pâle) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Claude Gagnon and released in 1985.
Hébert, a former hockey player turned coach who takes a camping trip in the wilderness; when he is physically attacked by a group of backwoods residents (Guy Thauvette, Gilbert Sicotte and Marcel Leboeuf), he is defended by Peter (Denis Lacroix), a First Nations man who is killed in the altercation.
Peter's sister Marie (Allison Odjig) subsequently shelters him on the nearby reserve, despite her grief over her brother's death and her history of distrust of white people.
It's even downright laughable at times when the fugitive from justice starts staging his own Hockey Nights in Canada on a wilderness pond.
"[6] For the Ottawa Citizen, David McDonald wrote that the film's narrative setup played like a cross between Death Weekend and Deliverance, while the relationship between Claude and Marie settled into "the romanticized theme that in the wilderness - in the past - the white man, out of necessity, learned from the Indians the art of survival.