Character Relationship Map: Bluff

Characters

• Nico (played by Emmanuel Bilodeau) — protagonist

  Nico is one of the apartment’s tenants and part of a couple with Céline. The two invite Serge over for a ménage à trois, making their vignette one of the stories that gradually reveals the lives of th...

• Josée (played by Isabelle Blais) — supporting

  Josée is Michel’s partner. When they learn that a painting may be worth more than $100,000, the couple desperately searches their apartment for it. Their frantic hunt forms one of the vignettes that c...

• Chuck (played by Nicolas Canuel) — supporting

  Chuck is one of a pair of bumbling crooks who attempt to rob the landlord. He carries out the attempted robbery alongside Patrice, and their misadventure is one of the tenant-related episodes shown as...

• Georges (played by Rémy Girard) — supporting

  Georges is an older man who claims to have been a championship boxer, although nobody he knows believes him. To prove his claim, he challenges his daughter’s boyfriend to a boxing match. His episode i...

• Serge (played by David La Haye) — supporting

  Serge is invited to the apartment by Nico and Céline, a couple who are seeking a ménage à trois. His visit is the central event of their vignette, one of several episodes that reveal the private lives...

• Patrice (played by Marc Messier) — supporting

  Patrice is one of a pair of bumbling crooks who try to rob the landlord. He attempts the robbery with Chuck, and their failed criminal scheme appears among the vignettes that piece together the histor...

• Michel (played by Alexis Martin) — supporting

  Michel is Josée’s partner. After they learn that a painting might be worth more than $100,000, the couple searches their apartment desperately for the missing artwork. Their frantic search forms one o...

• Céline (played by Julie Perreault) — minor

  Céline is Nico’s partner. Together, they invite Serge to their apartment for a ménage à trois. Their encounter forms one of the film’s vignettes, which collectively uncover the varied stories of the a...

• Julie (played by Marie-Laurence Moreau) — minor

  Julie is Georges’s daughter. Her boyfriend becomes the target of Georges’s challenge to a boxing match, which Georges stages in an effort to prove his repeatedly doubted claim that he was once a champ...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Georges → Julie (Family Father) — Georges is Julie's father.

  Georges is identified as an older man who challenges his daughter Julie's boyfriend to a boxing match.

• Michel → Josée (Romantic Partner) — They are partners whose shared search drives their episode.

  Michel and Josée are described as a couple desperately searching the apartment for a lost painting.

• Céline → Serge (Romantic Intimate Participant) — Céline has an explicitly intimate connection with Serge within the vignette.

  Céline is part of the couple that invites Serge over for a ménage à trois.

• Nico → Serge (Romantic Intimate Participant) — Serge becomes directly involved in the couple's intimate arrangement.

  Nico and Céline invite Serge over for a ménage à trois.

• Nico → Céline (Romantic Partner) — Nico and Céline are an established couple involved in the ménage à trois storyline.

  The plot identifies Nico and Céline as a couple who invite Serge to their apartment.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Patrice → Chuck (Alliance Criminal Partner) — They work together in the attempted robbery.

  Patrice and Chuck are described as a pair of bumbling crooks who attempt to rob the landlord.

Story Analysis

A shocking discovery in a doomed apartment building frames a mosaic of tenant stories spanning fifteen years.

Plot Progression

1. The Basement Mystery — A building inspector discovers something shocking in the basement of a building scheduled for demolition. The landlord is contacted, and both wait for a police officer while the film opens the apartme...
2. Lives Behind One Door — The film shifts into vignettes about tenants who occupied the apartment over fifteen years. A nervous job interview and a couple's search for a potentially valuable painting establish the variety of p...
3. Desire and Deception — Nico and Céline invite Serge into an intimate arrangement. Elsewhere, Patrice and Chuck attempt a robbery, bringing comic criminal tension into the apartment's accumulating history.
4. The Boxer's Challenge — Georges insists that he was once a championship boxer and challenges his daughter Julie's boyfriend to a match. His claim and confrontation form another eccentric portrait of life in the apartment.
5. The Building Remembers — The separate tenant stories accumulate around the original basement discovery. The waiting frame reaches its resolution as the police officer arrives and the apartment's fifteen-year history is comple...