Tell Me Why These Things Are So Beautiful | |
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French | Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles |
Directed by | Lyne Charlebois |
Written by | Lyne Charlebois |
Produced by | Sylvie Lacoste Veronika Molnar Roger Frappier |
Starring | Alexandre Goyette Mylène Mackay |
Cinematography | André Dufour |
Edited by | Yvann Thibaudeau |
Music by | Robin-Joël Cool Alexis Martin Viviane Audet |
Production company | Max Films |
Distributed by | Les Films Opale |
Release date |
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Running time | 132 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | French |
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]
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]
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]
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]
At Abitibi-Témiscamingue, it won the Grand Prix Hydro-Québec.[8]