A Brother's Love

A Brother's Love
	Film poster
French	La femme de mon frère
Directed by	Monia Chokri
Produced by	Sylvain Corbeil; Nancy Grant
Written by	Monia Chokri
Starring	Anne-Élisabeth Bossé; Patrick Hivon; Évelyne Brochu
Music by	Olivier Alary
Cinematography	Josée Deshaies
Edited by	Monia Chokri; Justine Gauthier
Production; company	Metafilms
Release date	15 May 2019 (Cannes);
Running time	117 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French
Box office	$1.7 million[1]

A Brother's Love (French: La femme de mon frère) is a 2019 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Monia Chokri.[2] It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.[3] Following its Cannes premiere, the film had its Canadian theatrical premiere on 7 June.[4]

The film stars Anne-Élisabeth Bossé as Sophia, an immature university graduate student who is forced to reassess her life when her brother Karim (Patrick Hivon), with whom she has always had a very close and codependent relationship, falls in love with her gynecologist Éloise (Évelyne Brochu).[5]

Plot

Sophia earns her PhD for her thesis on Antonio Gramsci, but discovers a lack of teaching positions available in her field and is saddled with student debt. At age 35, she lives rent-free with her brother Karim and leads tours at a local art gallery. Pregnant, Sophia seeks an abortion and she and Karim meet Eloïse, a doctor. Eloïse recognizes Karim as a man she met and slept with when she first moved to Montreal several years ago. Although Karim does not remember Eloïse, they agree to see each other again. After the abortion, Sophia tells Karim he should date a woman like Eloïse, but is turned off when he replies he will see Eloïse herself. Sophia loses her job at the gallery and decides to write a novel. She returns to Karim's apartment and speaks loudly about how she imagined Karim's date with Eloïse went, speculating Eloïse is frigid and shallow. Sophia is embarrassed to see Eloïse is in the apartment. Envious and concerned about Karim entering into an increasingly serious relationship, Sophia watches Eloïse as she interacts with Karim.

Eloïse and Karim take Sophia to a dinner, and Eloïse also brings her best friend Jasmin, a male midwife. Concerned she has been lured into a double date, Sophia is offended when Jasmin says giving birth is the most important event of a woman's life; Sophia never wants to have children. Jasmin and Sophia share a taxi, and Jasmin asks to see her again, though Sophia is reluctant. Eloïse then joins Karim and Sophia in a dinner with their parents. There, Sophia engages in a heated argument over her family, saying the world is overpopulated (when Eloïse expresses a desire for children) and her eight years of education were for nothing. Sophia storms out and refuses to apologize. She leaves Karim's apartment for a room at Jasmin's apartment; she also accepts a job as a French-language tutor for immigrants in the suburbs. Jasmin and Sophia have sex; the next morning, Sophia rushes to her new job and struggles on where to begin.

Sophia visits Eloïse in her office and tearfully apologizes for her behaviour at their last dinner. She confesses she had never seen her brother so happy. Eloïse replies by comparing the sibling relationship to atomic theory; since people are made up of atoms, they inherit their atoms from their parents, and she understands Karim and Sophia share a connection.

Cast

Anne-Élisabeth Bossé as Sophia
Patrick Hivon as Karim
Évelyne Brochu as Eloïse
Magalie Lépine-Blondeau as Anabelle Lajoie
Sasson Gabai as Hichem
Niels Schneider as Alex
Mylène Mackay
Micheline Bernard as Lucie

Accolades

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref(s)
Canadian Screen Awards	28 May 2020	Best Cinematography	Josée Deshaies	Nominated	[6]
Canadian Screen Awards	28 May 2020	Best Costume Design	Patricia McNeil	Nominated	[6]
Cannes Film Festival	14–25 May 2019	Jury Coup de Coeur	Monia Chokri	Won	[7]
Prix Iris	10 June 2020	Best Film	Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant	Nominated	[8]
		Best Director	Monia Chokri	Nominated
		Best Actor	Patrick Hivon	Nominated
		Best Actress	Anne-Élisabeth Bossé	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor	Sasson Gabai	Nominated
		Best Cinematography	Josée Deshaies	Nominated
		Best Art Direction	Éric Barbeau	Nominated
		Best Editing	Monia Chokri, Justine Gauthier	Nominated
		Best Costume Design	Patricia McNeil	Nominated
		Most Successful Film Outside Quebec		Nominated
		Public Prize		Nominated

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References

"A Brother's Love (2019)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
"The Screenings Guide 2019". 9 May 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
"Cannes festival 2019: full list of films". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
"Le film de Monia Chokri La femme de mon frère présenté mercredi à Cannes". Ici Radio-Canada. 15 May 2019.
"'A Brother's Love': Cannes Review". Screen Daily. 15 May 2019.
"Écrans canadiens : Song of Names, The Twentieth Century et Antigone en tête des nominations" (in French). Ici Radio-Canada. 18 February 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
Malyk, Lauren (27 May 2019). "Awards roundup: La femme de mon frere wins coup de coeur at Cannes". Playback. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
"Prix Iris 2020: «Il pleuvait des oiseaux» et «La femme de mon frère» partent favoris". The Huffington Post (in French). 23 April 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.

External links

A Brother's Love on IMDb

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[BOM-1] "A Brother's Love (2019)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 25 October 2019.

[2] "The Screenings Guide 2019". 9 May 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2019.

[3] "Cannes festival 2019: full list of films". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 April 2019.

[4] "Le film de Monia Chokri La femme de mon frère présenté mercredi à Cannes". Ici Radio-Canada. 15 May 2019.

[5] "'A Brother's Love': Cannes Review". Screen Daily. 15 May 2019.

[6] "Écrans canadiens : Song of Names, The Twentieth Century et Antigone en tête des nominations" (in French). Ici Radio-Canada. 18 February 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.

[7] Malyk, Lauren (27 May 2019). "Awards roundup: La femme de mon frere wins coup de coeur at Cannes". Playback. Retrieved 4 May 2020.

[8] "Prix Iris 2020: «Il pleuvait des oiseaux» et «La femme de mon frère» partent favoris". The Huffington Post (in French). 23 April 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.