Disappearing Lines | When the balloon of friendship bursts

Emily Cote
Pres

“What a comforting, yet toxic and boring friendship. Mariana Mazza, with her usual candor, could not have summed up the plot of the film better. Disappearing linesIt opens on July 6.

Dans cette comédie hautement dramatique, inspirée de la pièce de théâtre de Catherine Chabot, qui cosigne le scénario de son adaptation au cinéma avec Émile Gaudreault et qui porte le chapeau de coréalisatrice avec Miryam Bouchard, trois amies du secondaire se retrouvent à Montréal pour faire la fête. Or, la soirée dégénère rapidement en règlement de comptes et conflit de valeurs.

Fille d’immigrants, Sabina (Mariana Mazza) travaille en finance et fait beaucoup d’argent. Elle habite à Montréal, tout comme Valérie (Léane Labrèche-Dor), chroniqueuse culturelle pigiste dont les revendications sociales et écologiques cachent une jalousie face à l’argent. Quant à Audrey (Catherine Chabot), elle vit en Beauce, où elle s’occupe de sa mère malade et mène une vie trop rangée à son goût.

Les retrouvailles des trois amies commencent au vernissage d’Amber, la copine de Sabina (une anglophone francophile de la Colombie-Britannique interprétée par Victoria Diamond). Valérie et Audrey sont accompagnées de leurs amoureux.

Plombier, amateur de chasse et propriétaire d’un pick-up, le personnage de Maxime de Cotret (le fiancé d’Audrey) incarne « le gros bon sens » et l’authenticité. Pour sa part, Mickaël Gouin se glisse dans la peau d’un professeur de philosophie qui roule à vélo. Pauvre, il se considère néanmoins comme intellectuellement supérieur à la moyenne et il prône un couple ouvert avec Valérie…

Bien que tous cherchent à avoir du plaisir, leurs conversations finissent toujours par tourner au vinaigre en abordant des sujets chauds de leur génération comme l’environnement, la parentalité, l’argent et la reconnaissance, mais surtout, la dualité entre l’image et le bonheur.

Le concept de Lignes de fuite vient du philosophe Gilles Deleuze, a expliqué en conférence de presse Catherine Chabot, qui incarne une jeune femme anxieuse qui voudrait une vie « moins prévisible ». « C’est d’écouter la voix intérieure qui crie en nous […] We need to hear the urge to be ourselves. »

Catherine Chabot says she took “all her anxieties and contradictions” to integrate into six characters at the “crossroads” of the thirties. “That evening, everyone has a crisis and blind spots. »

Despite their vast differences, they all ask the same questions. “Am I in the right place, have I made the right choices? “, she continues.

One thing is for sure, the tension builds throughout the reunion evening. “We feel like Presto is going to explode”, Catherine Chabot says it best.

Makes you laugh and think

Catherine Chabot co-produced with Miriam Bouchard (My Own Circus, December 23) The latter liked the film’s humorous handling of environmental concerns. To use his words, Disappearing lines Makes us both “laugh and really feel guilty”.

We won’t tell you about these famous scenes…but I know that Disappearing lines Lives up to its comedy-drama title.

The shock of the characters’ values ​​makes for delicious dialogue The Fall of the American Empire.

For Léane Labrèche-Dor, the film condemns the situation we endure day by day until the “balloon bursts”. She enjoys seeing imperfect characters in cinema, including her own. Like Valerie, we all feel jealous of our friends at one point or another in our lives. “We don’t want to be like that,” the film eloquently conveys.

In fact, each of the six characters has us and our surroundings. Mariana Mazza underscores, “We all have that friend who is curious or another friend who makes boring comments.

“We’ve all experienced an evening when alcohol comes in and we start telling truths we shouldn’t, says Michael Coyne. What I like about the film is that no one is right, no one is wrong. »

“Humor is often the best way to deal with a subject,” adds the man, who enjoys being in a film that’s as funny as it is clever.

A closed session of 45 minutes

The scene leading up to the finale is behind closed doors for about forty minutes. To keep the game as realistic as possible, director Miriam Bouchard points out that the actors and actresses rehearsed for a week before the cameras turned on, and that filming was largely chronological. “It was a great luxury. »

beside him, Mariana Mazza wanted to thank Catherine Chabot for giving her the role “on a silver platter” without an audition. “You saw my sensitivity,” she told him.

At a press conference, Mariana Mazza also said she admires Leanne Lapreche-Dore and Catherine Chabot, who breastfeed their babies during filming.

Say it was originally written by Catherine Chabot Disappearing lines Because she wondered if we could have children in our warming world.

“The answer is 16 months old and is called Josephine. Yes, there is hope!”, she concluded.

Disappearing lines Hits theaters July 6.