Apocalypse love | While the fields burn

In Amour apocalypsewhere Patrick Hivon shines alongside the luminous Piper Perabo, Anne Émond deals with loneliness, depression and ecoanxiety with an unexpected humor.

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Owner of a kennel at Thetford Mines. In addition, apocalypse love | while fields Adam (Patrick Hivon), a 45 -year -old ecoanxious single, is led by the nose by her Romy employee (Elizabeth Mageren), a Gen Z that blows hot and cold. Therefore, At home, where his best friend Frank (Éric K. However, Boulianne) is often dragged. For example, Adam is rebuilt by his father Eugène (Gilles Renaud), who does not accept the depression of his son.

In order to overcome his melancholy, Adam gets a solar lamp. In addition, After having broken it, he calls the technical support of the company. Moreover, He then falls on Tina (Piper Perabo), who has sun in his voice. Fearing that she was injured in an earthquake. Adam goes to Sudbury to save the one whose name evokes the political slogan There Is No Alternative (“There is no other choice”). Despite the ambient greyness, their first meeting seems to be from a apocalypse love | while fields fairy tale. While climatic disasters multiply and threaten to separate them, Adam and Tina want to face the storm together.

After revealing his sense of humor in Young JulietTender comedy on the throes of adolescence. and a palpable pleasure to play with the codes of the thriller in Lucy Grizzli Sophiejubilant adaptation of The pack From Catherine-Anne Toupin, Anne Émond once again reveals an unsuspected facet. So unsuspected that many will be unarmed.

While she depicts with a formidable lucidity a world that runs to her loss in Amour apocalypse love | while fields apocalypsethe filmmaker jostles the codes of sentimental comedy with happiness. If this singular proposal seems to detonate in the filmography of the one to whom we owe Nelly. biobic atypical on Nelly Arcan, Amour apocalypse indeed carry Anne Émond’s claw.

In addition to finding the subjects dear to the director. such as depression, loneliness, incommunicability, we recognize in the benevolent Adam the despair of the fragile father of the Dear beings and this desire to merge with the other of the young couple one evening of Nuit #1.

Through the voice of Adam. on the lookout for everything that does not turn round on this planet, Anne Émond expresses her own anxieties in front of the future with a good dose of self -mockery.

Carried by an irresistible black humor. deliciously embarrassing situations, earthy characters apocalypse love | while fields earthy interpreted with naturalness, without forgetting a vitamin soundtrack, Amour apocalypse is much darker than it seems. Despite his offbeat side evoking Before we explodefrom Rémi St-Michel. this sixth feature by Anne Emond recalls more by her twilight charm Last Nightwhere Don McKellar proposed that the end of the world is looping nicely with a kiss.

Playing with ease with the elements. sometimes a burning sun the arid landscapes, sometimes a torrential rain threatening to destroy everything, the filmmaker offers Adam and Tina some moments of escape by projecting them in a winter paradise for a meditation. Honorary mention to the penetrating voice of the blender. lessee of his Stephen de Oliveira in the role of the therapist.

In the middle of the ambient chaos that Anne Émond orchestra. who takes a completely profit from the mining landscapes with the apocalypse love | while fields complicity of Olivier Gossot in the photo, Patrick Hivon, at the top of his art, and Piper Perabo, sparkling, form a duo as irresistible as it is improbable.

Indoor

Sentimental comedy

Amour apocalypse

Anne Émonde

Patrick Hivon, Piper Perabo, Gilles Renaud

1 h 40 min

7/10