The provocative Canadian film about two worlds colliding has a lot to say about sexual passion, but mostly from the perspective of a strong female character played by Magalie Lépine-Blondeau.
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Sophia is in a stable, yet sex-less relationship with her partner Xavier , but finds her sexual desire is reawakened, as if from a coma, when she falls for Sylvain, played by Pierre Eves Cardinal, a charismatic handyman in flannel shirts and jeans renovating her new country cottage. As their torrid affair unfolds and their worlds are turned upside down, Sophia as a strong female character becomes a blend of sensuality, smarts and wit as society’s much-contested borders around monogamy and affairs are explored with a mixture of comedy and drama.
Rather than have Sophia in sex scenes scantily clad or nude and in varied compromising positions, Chokri’s camera rarely strays from Lépine-Blondeau’s face or words during their intimacy. “The sex scenes are pretty vocal. It’s more about what they say than what we see. We know she’s excited. It’s not about that. It’s about what she feels in her mind,” the director explains.where Lily Rose Deep in scenes where she masturbates fixates on her own body. “I did the opposite.
“That’s why when my character masturbates herself, she sees the parts of Sylvain’s body, and not herself,” Chokri adds. But beyond a wealthy woman in a mid-life crisis abandoning herself to romantic desire as both lovers try to break free of their intellectual and class divides,“When you meet someone with passion, you project a lot of things on this person, who can be your total fantasy. And then comes real life,” she observes.
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