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A young woman gets caught in the middle of a web of dysfunction and violence in this independent drama from Quebec. Coralie (Eve Duranceau) is still reeling from the news that her mother has been sent to a mental hospital. Luckily, she still has her kindly father Jacob (Normand Levesque), but this can only help so much, for Coralie is crumbling inside. Posing as a girl named Vicky, she connects with a stranger via phone and has sex with the young man as an act of desperation. Meanwhile, an old family acquaintance, ex-con Pierrot (Laurent Lucas) arrives with a cache of weapons in tow and invites the ambivalent Coralie to fly to France with him. In the same town, corpulent Alain (Rejean Lefrancois) - a longtime acquaintance of Jacob's - consorts and shares a house with two violent and unsavory drug pushers, Spazz (Nicolas Canuel) and Pic (Olivier Aubin); Spazz ultimately sets up shop in the home with a pair of Russian girls, illegal aliens working as hookers. Tension rises as Alain expresses disgust over the men's home-based prostitution ring, and Spazz and Pic grow irritated by Pierrot's presence at Jacob's place and prepare to confront the Frenchman. Then, following an abortive trip to re-connect with her mother, Coralie receives a startling offer from Spazz that will enable her to escape from the dead-end town once and for all, but comes with some rather messy and ugly strings attached. Elle Veut Le Chaos (aka All That She Wants) earned Denis Cote "Best Director" honors at the 2008 Locarno Film Festival.