THE NATURE OF LOVE | SIMPLE COMME SYLVAIN

CANADA, FRANCE | 2023 | COLOR | DCP | 111’ | FRENCH

Sofia is an upper-class woman, leading a typical, modern, civilized marriage. That is, she sleeps in a separate bedroom. One day she will meet the man who is about to restore her cottage and everything in her life collapses, making her wonder whether she was right giving in to her instincts and desires. Monia Chokri (Xavier Dolan’s leading actress) surrenders completely to an absolutely imaginative direction, while at the forefront sense and sensibility, sex and romance, comedy and female contemporary questions, collide. Bold and certainly adult in spirit and in spectacle, her movie stood as one of the biggest surprises of this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Th.K.

DIRECTOR: Monia Chokri
SCREENWRITER: Monia Chokri
DoP: André Turpin
MUSIC: Emile Sornin
EDITOR: Pauline Gaillard
PRINCIPAL CAST: Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Francis-William Rhéaume, Monia Chokri

MONIA CHOKRI
Canadian director and actress, born in 1983 in Quebec. She studied Acting at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Montreal. She played in the theater before she was discovered successively by Denys Arkand and Xavier Dolan. This is her 3rd feature film as director.

FILMOGRAPHY
2023 The Nature of Love
2022 Babysitter
2018 A Brother’s Love