Boris Without Beatrice

Mar 4, 2016

1h 33m

★ 6.5

Overview

Living somewhere in present-day Quebec, Boris Malinowski has achieved all his goals. A freethinker, open-minded and proud, he also displays a certain arrogance when it comes to his successes. For some time now, his wife Béatrice, a Canadian government minister, has been bedridden, suffering from a mysterious depression. To escape from his wife’s agony, Boris begins a relationship with a colleague, Helga, and gets close to Klara, a young woman who works as a maid in Boris’s home. The sudden appearance of a stranger in his life forces Boris to come face-to-face with the world, with everything he takes for granted, with all his certainties.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Metafilms

Téléfilm Canada

SODEC

Boris Without Beatrice Trailers

Cast

Boris

James Hyndman

Béatrice

Simone-Elise Girard

L'Inconnu

Denis Lavant

Klara

Isolda Dychauk-Ott

Helga

Dounia Sichov

Justine Malinovsky

Laetitia Isambert

Pauline Malinovsky

Louise Laprade

Docteur Miller

Anie Pascale

Premier ministre

Bruce LaBruce

Le maire

Roc LaFortune

Préposée Boutique

Ludivine Reding

Oreste

Maxime Carbonneau

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