Tell Me Why These Things Are So Beautiful

Jun 21, 2024

1h 39m

★ 7.4

Overview

Brother Marie-Victorin was 46 when he met 23-year-old Marcelle Gauvreau. Both have been close to death and share the same love of God and Nature. He becomes her teacher, later she becomes his assistant. Their friendship evolves. Marie-Victorin offers Marcelle different readings on sexuality that she hastens to comment on from her own intimate experiences. In an epistolary exchange that will last until the death of Marie-Victorin, they explore human desires and "biology without a veil". This great chaste love, the love of Quebec's flora, pushes them to question their own relationship with love and Nature.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Max Films

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Cast

Frère Marie-Victorin / Antoine

Alexandre Goyette

Marcelle Gauvreau / Roxanne

Mylène Mackay

Rita Simard / Catherine

Rachel Graton

Frère Léo / Michel

Francis Ducharme

Sœur Marie-des-Anges / Louise

Sylvie Moreau

Marianne Molnar

Marianne Farley

Dr. Joseph Gauvreau

Vincent Graton

Augustine Gauvreau

Geneviève Langlois

Lydia

Ariane Castellanos

Janine

Kim Despatis

Antonia Gauvreau

Éva Tanoni

Jacqueline Lalonde

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