Tell Me Why These Things Are So Beautiful (2023)
Tell Me Why These Things Are So Beautiful (2023)
WEB-Dl 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 4403 Kbps | 98 min | 3,43 Gb
Audio: French AC3 5.1 @ 512 Kbps | Subtitles: English SDH hardcoded
Genre: Drama
WEB-Dl 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 4403 Kbps | 98 min | 3,43 Gb
Audio: French AC3 5.1 @ 512 Kbps | Subtitles: English SDH hardcoded
Genre: Drama
Director: Lyne Charlebois
Stars: Mylène Mackay, Marianne Farley, Alexandre Goyette
Brother Marie-Victorin (Le Jardin Botanique, La Flore Laurentienne) was 46 when he met 23-year-old Marcelle Gauvreau. Both have been close to death and share the same love of God and Nature. He becomes her teacher, later she becomes his assistant. Their friendship evolves. Marie-Victorin offers Marcelle different readings on sexuality that she hastens to comment on from her own intimate experiences. In an epistolary exchange that will last until the death of Marie-Victorin, they explore human desires and "biology without a veil". This great chaste love, the love of Quebec's flora, pushes them to question their own relationship with love and Nature.
Very well acted. Good soundtrack and photography. Excellent integration of the correspondence with the rest of the story. From the perspectives of the history of scientific emergence, identity appropriation and the sexual emancipation of Quebecers, this film is essential and should be seen by as many people as possible, particularly teenagers aged 15 and over. However, the two-pronged production (the relationship between Marie-Victorin and Gauvreau in relation to the mise en abyme of the cast) adds nothing to the film and even harms its pace and intensity, even its depth: one gets the impression that the director does not trust her audience.
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Tell Me Why These Things Are So Beautiful (2023)
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