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Tell Me Why These Things Are So Beautiful

2023 Canadian drama film

Tell Me Why These Things Are So Beautiful (French: Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Lyne Charlebois and released in 2023.[1]

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The film stars Alexandre Goyette as Marie-Victorin Kirouac, the Roman Catholic clergyman who was instrumental in the creation of the Montreal Botanical Garden, and Mylène Mackay as Marcelle Gauvreau, a young botany student with whom he had a longtime emotionally intimate but platonic friendship.[2]

The cast also includes Rachel Graton, Francis Ducharme, Sylvie Moreau, Marianne Farley and Vincent Graton.[3]

Production

The film entered production in early 2023. It was shot principally in Montreal, although several days of location shooting were also undertaken in Cuba.[4]

Mackay previously played Gauvreau in André Forcier's 2019 film Forgotten Flowers (Les fleurs oubliées), opposite Yves Jacques as Kirouac.[5]

Distribution

The film premiered on November 2, 2023, as the closing film of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival.[1] It later screened in the Borsos Competition program at the 2023 Whistler Film Festival.[6]

Commercial release is slated for June 2024.[7]

Awards

At Abitibi-Témiscamingue, it won the Grand Prix Hydro-Québec.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    Maxime Demers, "Le film «Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles» sera présenté en clôture du Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue". Le Journal de Montréal, September 7, 2023.
  2. [2]
    Caroline Bertrand, "Marcelle Gauvreau et Marie-Victorin s’aimeront (chastement) à l’écran". Métro, February 17, 2023.
  3. [3]
    Charles-Henri Ramond, "(FCIAT 2023) Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles en clôture". Films du Québec, September 18, 2023.
  4. [4]
    Émilie Côté, "Les leçons d’un grand amour". La Presse, January 13, 2023.
  5. [5]
    Alex Rose, "Roy Dupuis pukes actual rainbows in André Forcier’s Les fleurs oubliées". Cult MTL, October 25, 2019.
  6. [6]
    Taimur Sikander Mirza, "500 Days in the Wild to world premiere at Whistler". Playback, November 1, 2023.
  7. [7]
    Charles-Henri Ramond, "Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles en salle le 21 juin". Films du Québec, March 18, 2024.
  8. [8]
    "Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles remporte le 42e FCIAT". Ici Radio-Canada Première, November 3, 2023.


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