"This is not a film about women," says Denis Coté. I leave them a lot of room to express themselves.
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Donicothe has made his 14 films in the last 16 years. So Quebec directors are used to not overthinking things or getting stuck. He picks up the topic on the spot.
One day someone gave him Carol Grohnman's book Nymphomania: A History.
"She's a historian from New York," Côté explained. "She breaks down the word nymphomania, why we shouldn't use it, why it's a male scientist's response to women's desires, and what is considered normal whenever women talk about their desires. We call her a nymphomaniac, we say she's insane, why? Côté's new film Un été comme ça follows three women with so-called sexual dysfunction (played with captivating intensity by Larissa Corrivaux, Laure Giappiconi and Aude Mathieu) during a 26-day therapy retreat. Thing. There is nudity and sex, perhaps not shown in the method of objectification that Hollywood has accustomed us to. And lots of stories.
"This is not a film about women," Côté said. I leave them a lot of room to express themselves.
Côté is an arthouse writer and veteran of the film festival touring. Un été comme ça premiered in his hometown of the famous Berlinale in February.
Throughout the filmmaking process, he was conscious that he did not want to fall into the tropes of male filmmakers' voyeurism. We hired consultants and used female editors. He also ran the script with a good friend of his, an actress, but he was conscious that he was walking on a fine line.
"I wanted to make a film from a white heterosexual perspective in 2022, but it has to be done with care, in a responsible way, with sensitivity and sensitivity," he said. I was. "Do people still hate me because I'm making a movie about women? I don't know. Do they talk about the male gaze? Scary but exciting."
The women in this film are very sexual in their own way. Each is deeply involved in her desires and haunted by her past, but Kote is careful not to explain them morally or offer simple answers. } 
"I make films like being blindfolded in the dark," he says. Told. "We're researching the question, and when you're done, you can go home and think about it. There may be no integration at the end, but two hours of humans asking themselves their relationship to intimacy and sexuality." It's great to see... When it's over, we can all go back to anonymity and secrecy."
This is the third film actress Colibeau has produced with Côté. It's a movie.
"I feel an artistic kinship with Denise and her," she said. "We both like exploring the unknown. We like taking risks. We are not afraid to confront each other's ideas."
Corrivo plays Leonie, a woman with an abusive past turned into a hypersexual present.
"She is deeply traumatized," said Kolibor. “My first question was how to justify her trauma without falling into clichés. We approached the character through detachment from her body: she's someone who oscillates between erasure and a desire to express what she's been through.
"The first time I was tied up like that, I understood what the character wanted," she said. , Leonie said, "I found myself at the mercy of someone, but not abused. So it's a reappropriation of her body. In that sense, there's something very beautiful and wholesome about the character."
Un été comme ça has received a lot of attention for its sexual subject matter, but Corriveau believes I'm here. Gender is mostly irrelevant.
"This is a movie about people trying to love themselves and share their own life experiences with others," she said. "For me, this is a movie about connecting with others, being understood, and loving yourself. It's a very tender movie, with a lot of empathy, not just for women, but for humans and the human condition."[109] }
Summary: Un été comme ça opens with English subtitles on Friday at Cinema du Parc
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