August 11, 2024
9:00 p.m.
Lac-Brome Theater

Lyne Charlebois

French, English subtitles
Feature film
Fiction / Drama / In competition
Classification: General
99 minutes

Fiction. Drama. Canada. 2023

Brother Marie-Victorin (Le Jardin Botanique, La Flore Laurentienne) befriends his student Marcelle Gauvreau. Both have had close brushes with death and share the same love of God and nature. Later, she becomes his collaborator. Their friendship is transformed. In an epistolary exchange that lasted until Marie-Victorin’s death, they explored human desires and “biology without veil”. This great chaste love, the love of Quebec flora, prompts Antoine and Roxane, who embody them on screen, to question their own relationship with love and Nature.

Followed by a discussion with the director Lyne Charlebois and the actress Mylène Mackay.

Lyne Charlebois

A passionate, creative and rigorous director, Lyne Charlebois devotes most of her time to television and film. While the hit film Borderline won her numerous awards in Quebec and internationally, the TV series Toute la vérité, Tabou, Nos étés and the docu-drama Yin Yang are among her best-known achievements. Lyne Charlebois is the first woman to win the Best Director award for her film Borderline at the IRIS Awards Gala. A series of seven short films entitled Nous sommes tous les jours (We are all days), which take the verb “to love” and present it in seven facets on seven days of the week, was shown at the Toronto Film Festival and at the Rencontres du court-métrage in Paris, earning her national and international recognition. These seven short films were also noticed in Montreal at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma at Ex-Centris.

Alongside her career in film and fiction, Lyne Charlebois has produced an impressive number of commercials for companies such as Loto-Québec, Héma-Québec and Wal-Mart. She is renowned for her eclecticism and versatility. Her immense talent, achievements and life path make her one of the most important directors in Quebec and Canada. It was in the late ’80s that Lyne Charlebois’ talent as a director was revealed: for almost ten years, she conceived and produced over a hundred music videos for well-known artists, many of which won awards in Quebec and abroad: two Félix awards for Best Music Video of the Year and Best Music Video of the Year at the Los Angeles Music Festival for the song “Opium” (Daniel Bélanger), two other Félix awards (Laurence Jalbert, Marjo), a Juno Award for Best Music Video of the Year Gogh Van Go.

Mylène Mackay (actress)

A 2011 graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Mylène has carved out her own place in the Quebec cultural scene. She launched her career with the role of
Marilou in Ziad Touma’s web series Les Judas, for which she received a Gémeaux
Gémeaux for Best Performance in an Original Series – New Media (2012). She subsequently won a Gémeaux award at the same gala for her performance interpretation of Amélie in François Jaros’ popular series L’Âge adulte (2017).

It’s in film that we can appreciate the greatness of her talent, notably in the
Anne Émond’s hit film Nelly. Her interpretation of the iconic Quebec author
earned her the award for Best Performance – Female Lead at the Gala Québec Cinéma
(2017). She is also part of the cast of Endorphine, a feature film in which she plays Simone. The latter earned her a nomination at the Canadian Screen Awards in
2016 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role.