Interviews for the release of the film “Love Apocalypse”: a romantic comedy of his time with Patrick Hivon and Piper Perabo

Presented at the Directors Fifteen last May at the Cannes Film Festival, Amour Apocalypse Anne Émond is undoubtedly a film that feels good. Similarly, Patrick Hivon. However, Piper Perabo and the filmmaker tell us about the feature film that has just been chosen to be presented at the end of the Toronto Film Festival!

You shouldn’t be mistaken, “it’s a romantic comedy,” said Piper Perabo with his sunny voice and with a big smile. Consequently, Because, in this Amour Apocalypseshe embodies Tina, an employee of the call center of a company that manufactures therapeutic lamps. Furthermore, Adam, played by Patrick Hivon, comes into contact with her, thinking that she acts as a psychological support. Moreover, The departure misunderstanding-Adam is depressed-will lead to a love story against the backdrop of climatic disasters. For example, offbeat characters, Gilles Renaud playing Adam’s interviews release film “love apocalypse”: father, while Elizabeth Mageren turns into Romy, her passive-aggressive employee.

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Patrick Hivon “found himself in Adam”, a man suffering from a paralyzing ecoanxiety, owner of a kennel, a lonely whose mother died when he was very small and who has a conflictual relationship with his father. For example, The actor also found the one who had already embodied his father in Weeds. Consequently, “You have to choose where we look,” he says wisely. Meanwhile, If you are too much in a fairy tale, you have to look at reality. Nevertheless, And if you look at interviews release film “love apocalypse”: life too much in a bad way, you have to look at the flowers more. We’re all going to die. What is important is the way we occupy our time. ” Expanding the subject. the actor then quotes Louis Godbout, who had told him that “this life is not made for those who are thirsty for justice, but those who are thirsty for beauty”.

Beauty. Light

Beauty is Piper Perabo – Discovered by Anne Emond in The prestige by Christopher Nolan – who brings him. Bright. the actress was in South Korea in the midst of series of actions when she learned of the scenario of Amour Apocalypse. She jumped into the joint feet project when she thought she was having a vacation. she who had worked with another Quebec director in 2001 … in the Rebels of Léa Pool.

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“They both have very clear visions of the film they want to make. Their teams support them, she says. Often. in the United States, the decisions of women filmmakers are questioned by their teams, and it is not at all what I see in Quebec. I don’t see anyone asking Anne Emond if she is sure that it is what she wants to do. for a scene. She’s the boss, and it was the same with Léa. Their teams are there to collaborate in their vision. this makes the process extremely simple since there is only one captain, ”she notes.

Seeing Amour Apocalypsewe necessarily make the interviews release film “love apocalypse”: parallel with Young Julietreleased in 2019, a partially autobiographical story about the transition to adulthood. “”Young Juliet is comic, a little absurd, much funnier than my other films and I feel good in there. I feel good in more colorful, sunny films. ”

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“Ecoanxiety, climate change, depression, etc., there are really anti -capitalist subjects and clear messages. It is not at all a committed and political documentary, ”underlines the filmmaker.

“The world in which we live is super worrying. A few days ago, it was difficult to breathe (due to the pollution of the forest fires), interviews release film “love apocalypse”: it was worrying. Despite all that. I gave myself the challenge of making a bright, funny and offbeat film because I like life and I like humans. ”

Amour Apocalypse The black screens of the province will be sunny on August 8.