We Had It Coming

We Had It Coming is a Canadian thriller drama film, directed by Paul Barbeau and released in 2019.[1] The film stars Natalie Krill as Anna, a security guard working in a grade school who sets out to Montreal with her girlfriend Olivia (Alexia Fast) to investigate her younger sister Katja's (Sofie Holland) suicide after being recruited into a prostitution ring, only to end up ironically in a cat and mouse chase with a female recruiter (Erin Agostino) who grooms young girls for pimp Jack (Nabil Khatib).[2]

We Had It Coming
Film poster
Directed byPaul Barbeau
Written byPaul Barbeau
Produced byPaul Barbeau
Melissa A. Smith
StarringNatalie Krill
Alexia Fast
Erin Agostino
CinematographyBenoit Jones-Vallée
Edited byLaurent Bernier
Music byDaniel Birch
Production
companies
Reprise Films
Fairmount Films
Distributed byMK2 Mile End
Release date
  • December 6, 2019 (2019-12-06) (Whistler)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The film was originally conceived by Barbeau as centred around a male protagonist, but he subsequently decided to complete the screenplay with a woman for the lead role instead.[3]

The film premiered at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival,[4] before going into commercial release in 2020.[5]

At Whistler, Krill was one of four recipients, alongside Andrew Dunbar, Ryan McDonald and Andrea Stefancikova, of the Stars to Watch award.[1] The film had its international premiere at the Prague International Film Festival (Febiofest) in the Panorama section.

References
  1. Charles-Henri Ramond, "We Had It Coming – Film de Paul Barbeau". Films du Québec, September 13, 2020.
  2. Bradley Gibson, "We Had It Coming". Film Threat, September 19, 2020.
  3. John Hopewell, "Cannes Festival: Media Luna Takes ‘We Had It Coming,’ ‘The Friendly Man’". Variety, April 23, 2019.
  4. Victor Stiff, "Whistler Film Festival Announces 2019 Line-up". That Shelf, November 6, 2019.
  5. François Lévesque, "«We Had it Coming»: la chasse au monstre". Le Devoir, September 18, 2020.


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