Machine Gun Molly

The film is set in Montreal. At its centre is a woman with no money. Two men have walked out on her. She wants her children to have a different life from the one she grew up in. She can see no other route to it. With her new partner she starts robbing banks. She builds it up quickly. She comes to the front in a trade counted as men’s work. The press gives her a nickname. The story is adapted from a real life. Monica Proietti robbed twenty banks. Her story ended in 1967. The screenplay is adapted from a book by Georges-Hébert Germain. Céline Bonnier and Roy Dupuis appear in the hundred and twenty five minute film, a Canadian production Pierre Houle finished in 2004.