Tell Me Why These Things Are So Beautiful
2024Brother Marie-Victorin (Le Jardin Botanique, La Flore Laurentienne) 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.
Acted in
Alexandre Goyette
as Frère Marie-Victorin / Antoine
Mylène Mackay
as Marcelle Gauvreau / Roxanne
Rachel Graton
as Rita / Catherine
Francis Ducharme
as Frère Léo / Michel
Sylvie Moreau
as Soeur Marie-des-Anges / Louise
Marianne Farley
as Marianne
Vincent Graton
as Joseph Gauvreau
Geneviève Langlois
as Augustine Gauvreau
Ariane Castellanos
as Lydia
Kim Despatis
as Janine
Éva Tanoni
as Antonia Gauvreau
