Viking (2022 film)

Viking is a 2022 Canadian comedy film, directed by Stéphane Lafleur. The film centres on a group of people who are working as a "B team" to reenact the events of the first crewed mission to Mars, in the hopes of trying to solve the interpersonal problems among the astronauts that have impacted the real mission.

The film's cast includes Steve Laplante, Larissa Corriveau, Fabiola Nyrva Aladin, Hamza Haq, Denis Houle, Marie Brassard and Martin-David Peters.

The film premiered in the Platform Prize program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2022.

In 2023, the film was released in France under the alternate title On dirait la planète mars.

Cast

 * Marie Brassard as Christiane Comte
 * Steve Laplante as David
 * Fabiola Nyrva Aladin as Janet
 * Denis Houle as Liz
 * Larissa Corriveau as Steven
 * Hamza Haq as Gary
 * Christopher Heyerdahl as Roy Walker

Critical response
Pat Mullen of That Shelf called Viking "Lafleur's best film yet", and analyzed it in part as an allegory for the technological mediations that society has had to cope with through the COVID-19 pandemic.

The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022.