Synopsis
Three teenagers are shaken up by their first loves in the turmoil of their youth. At a time when others are conforming, they stand their ground and assert their right to love and be free.
Three teenagers are shaken up by their first loves in the turmoil of their youth. At a time when others are conforming, they stand their ground and assert their right to love and be free.
Théodore Pellerin Noée Abita Édouard Tremblay-Grenier Pier-Luc Funk Émilie Bierre Maxime Dumontier Paul Ahmarani Jules Roy Sicotte Antoine Marchand-Gagnon Vassili Schneider Jean-Simon Leduc Marc Beaupré Mylène Mackay Guillaume Laurin Rose-Marie Perreault Marie Jasmina Noémi Lira Étienne Galloy Devon O'Connor Tomas Ross Émile Bilodeau Tayna V. Lavoie Brett Dier
Pradzia, Baslangicta, 제네시스, Génesis, 创性纪, Начало, Első szerelmek, Geneza, Возникновение, Gênese, Geneză
Very engaging film with strong performances. Very interesting structure.
Look out for Théodore Pellerin. Star in the making.
Screened at the film's premiere at the Fevi auditorium.
“You were right
Love takes time”
Upon a rewatch I was afraid that my initial problems with the film would feel amplified and distracting but I rather found myself falling more deeply in love with Lesage’s film. Young love has rarely been portrayed on screen in such a refreshing way, not only do so many moments ring true in subtle manners but there is so much meaning to be found in the style of the film wether it be in cuts or zooms or in the polarizing music cues (personally loved it to death).
Théodore Pellerin is still so terrific, as I sat closer to the screen I was able to pick up so much of his body language and…
Genèse est un film qui ne juge pas, mais qui fait comprendre.
Un film qui n’a pas peur de faire durer ses plans le temps qu’il faut. Un film où en dépit du peu de plans différents, la caméra semble constamment être au bon endroit au bon moment.
Un film personnel, empreint de la culture québécoise, mais universel dans la boule qu’il crée dans notre estomac.
Un film d’une structure inhabituelle et abondant de personnages qui parvient malgré tout à approfondir chacun d’entre eux. Un film au casting parfait.
Un film beau et triste, mais soufflant un vent d’espoir.
Being young hurts. The first two-thirds of the narrative is brilliant, and then the filmmaker truncates the story and starts a new one ... Odd decision and definitely hurts the movie. Would’ve been much stronger sticking to the original characters, but nonetheless a beautiful mediation on young love and the struggle to voice your feelings. Also has an amazing soundtrack!
Quelques mots sur Genèse de Philippe Lesage (c'est lundi soir, je suis fatigué et je vais me corriger en me relisant) :
Deux histoires et demi d'amour qui naissent, les deux principales se terminent mal, l'autre débute si bien qu'on croirait que les deux jeunes tourtereaux filmés sont les seuls à avoir jamais aimé dans l'Histoire. La distribution est nickel (le film avait déjà mon vote pour l'Iris de la Meilleure distribution pis je l'avais même pas encore vu, c'est pour dire), la DP et la DA rapprochent la patente d'un cinéma européen très distingué (c'est positif ça me semble). Même si je décroche à certains moments (la récurrence d'une pièce musicale assez vaporeuse, pitié, les références frontales à Full…
theodore pellerin is who people think timothee chalamet is
it’s hard for me to dislike a film in which a character is a j.d. salinger fan (speaking of which, pellerin was also in another salinger-related film i enjoyed - my salinger year).
anyway, i am quickly becoming a pellerin fan - i mean, the man haunts me in my dreams!
Young love and heartbreak in Quebec, so boldly and inventively imagined it’s as if these oft-depicted feelings are being discovered for the first time. First crushes and disappointments may be ultimately very minor things, but that doesn’t change the fact that they still feel like they’ve never happened before to anyone else. The way it can feel at a drunken basement party when everyone’s coupling off but you, or how you look at your first serious boyfriend once you realize he’s not the one for you after all. In capturing the hushed intensity of his trio of young lovers’ emotional landscapes, Lesage uses only a small handful of songs repeatedly, as in those heady days when our musical taste becomes…
A film about how the young experience first love, seen from the perspective of three Canadian teens. Creatively done by young French-Canadian director Philippe Lesage, it does a fine job of showing the tentativeness, excitement, and ultimately the vulnerability of adolescents as they wonder and blunder in experiencing romantic needs, as well as the pain and disappointments.
The storytelling jumps around a bit, with the first two-thirds center on half-siblings Guillame (Théodore Pellerin) and Charlotte (Noée Abita). Guillame, a boastful lanky teen in an all-boys school, as a crush on a classmate, his best friend. Charlotte, more sexually-experienced, is thrown off by her boyfriend's hesitant suggestion they open up their relationship. Confused and angry, she starts dating older boys who…
J'ai trouvé ça assez pénible, surtout la première partie. C'est filmé avec un voyeurisme qui m'a mis vraiment mal à l'aise, surtout dans les scènes avec Noée Abita. J'aurais plus à dire sur ça, mais ça vaut pas la peine.
Théodore Pellerin est vraiment bon et Abita, qui a été excellente dans Ava, est bien et j'aurais vraiment voulu qu'ils (ou plutôt leurs personnages) soient dans un meilleur film. Ils ont une très belle chimie et c'est dommage que le film n'ait pas exploré leur relation. Il y a quelques beaux moments – celui où le jeune garçon donne Franny and Zooey (❤️) au personnage de Pellerin, et plus tard lorsqu'il lui demande s'il peut dormir dans le même lit,…
The most frustrating kind of three-star rating, i.e. I'd recommend this without hesitation—it plays ND/NF, go see it!—but with reservation, since it has a few not-insignificant missteps. First hour is utterly superb, channeling the rapturous spirit of the Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge series—the benchmark for this kind of youthful portraiture—chased with a more austere touch (Lesage's last film recalled Östlund, and thus Haneke), in particular, a bit of Afterschool anomie. Incredibly ambitious—a value-neutral quality, but still refreshing to see in a Canadian landscape that increasingly seems drawn to staid hybridity—relying on deft interplay between its two main strands (suggested by the perpendicular profiles of the poster), and boldly bifurcated, recalling, in its structural audacity and…