Genesis

2018
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Title: Genesis

Original Title: Genèse

Year: 2018

Info

  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 125 Minutes (2 hours 5 min)
  • Budget: $2,500,000
  • Genre: Drama
  • Distributor: Surtsey Films

Plot

Genesis is a canadian drama film that tells the story about how the first love happens for three teenagers in the middle of their adolescence crisis. Guillaume, played by Théodore Pellerin, and Charlotte, played by Noée Abita are actually half-siblings, they are discovering their first loves. Despite this situation, Charlotte is still in a relationship with his current boyfriend Maxime, played by the actor Pier-Luc Funk. This is the moment Charlotte realizes she needs an open relationship with him, and she will have to discover a life with no romantic restrictions. While in this cris, Guillaume is falling in love with a classmate from his only-man private school, called Nicolas and played by Jules Roy Sicotte. This film is directed by director Philippe Lesage.

Cast

Director:

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Trivia

By a whisker

The Charlotte character was going to be played by an actress from Quebec, but he quitted in the last moment, so when there was only 10 days left before the begin of the filming, Noée Abite accepted the role and traveled from France to work in the movie.

Exploration

The director Philippe Lesage made 'Genesis' thinking in his own coming-to-age times and wanting to explore this concrete era of his life, despite this, this is not a autobiographical picture.

A quote

The director Philippe Lesage likes to define 'Genesis' with a quote of the singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen: "Love is the only engine of survival".

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