Mille secrets, mille dangers
Free activity
In presence of guests
Québec cinema
This movie is presented with:
| From Book to Screen | Lovely Day | SOLD OUT | Saturday, 18 April | 14:30 | Consult the activity |
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Québec cinema
presented by Hydro-Québec
Alain is marrying Virginie. The day will be grand, the day will be perfect, and Alain’s Lebanese aunts will talk about this wedding for years to come. But Alain has a stomachache. A quiet anger is rumbling inside him. He dreads seeing his parents again—their tumultuous divorce left deep marks on his childhood. He fears the return of his anxiety attacks, and he fears falling back into the medication dependence he’s only just escaped. His cousin Édouard, more like a brother to him, has promised the newlyweds a parade in a convertible Mustang. Except on the wedding day, Édouard has his mind elsewhere. He’s plotting a nebulous scheme and insists on telling Alain about it. In doing so, Édouard summons old ghosts and throws Alain into an anxiety bordering on delirium. Alain has only one ambition left: to survive the most beautiful day of his life.
Official Selection – TIFF – 2025
Official Selection – FCVQ – 2025
In collaboration with Canadian Film Day
The screening will be followed by the From Book to Screen activity. Find all the details about the activity here.
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Alain Farah Auteur et enseignant à McGill
Born in Montreal in 1979, Alain Farah is a professor of literature at McGill University. He has published the novels Mille secrets mille dangers (2021), Pourquoi Bologne (2013), Matamore nº 29 (2008), and the poetry collection Quelque chose se détache du port (2004). Mille secrets mille dangers won the 2022 Ringuet Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award, in addition to being a finalist for the Prix littéraire des collégiens, the Prix des libraires du Québec, and the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal.
Will attend:
- Saturday, 18 April | 14:30 - Baobab - café de quartier
Philippe Falardeau Réalisateur
Philippe Falardeau has directed award-winning films around the world, such as Monsieur Lazhar, nominated for an Oscar and winner of the Variety Piazza Grande Award at the Locarno Film Festival in 2011, and My Salinger Year, the opening film at the Berlin Film Festival in 2020. Mille secrets mille dangers is his ninth film.
Will attend:
- Saturday, 18 April | 14:30 - Baobab - café de quartier