Simple as Sylvain: trailer for the film by Monia Chokri, favorite of the Cabourg festival
How to interpret love at first sight? Sophia and Sylvain, who are completely opposites, throw themselves headlong into a romantic adventure.
“It’s very joyful for us, because we made this film with love, with respect, with joy. We wanted to convey tenderness and gentleness to people, and I think that’s what came out.”explains Monia Chokri with emotion about her new creation.
Reward at the Cabourg romantic film festival (grand jury prize for feature films and youth jury prize), Simple Like Sylvain highlights Sophia’s love journey (Magalie Lépine Blondeau) a fifty-year-old professor of philosophy in Montreal. After 10 years spent in a relationship with the platonic Xavier (Francis-William Rhéaume), Sophia will have an encounter that will turn her life upside down. The famous Sylvain (Pierre-Yves Cardinal) a carpenter in charge of the work on his country house. A question inevitably arises, should you give up everything to experience love at first sight intensely?
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Simple like Sylvain will be in theaters on November 8. Here is an interview with its director, met during the last Cannes festival precisely to talk about this romantic film.
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