Genesis (2018)

Original title

Genèse

Directed by

Philippe Lesage

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Canada

Runtime

2h 11m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 41 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage half-brother and half-sister each navigate their own romantic struggles. Charlotte grapples with her boyfriend's wish for an open relationship. Guillaume, a boarding school student, explores his attraction to a male classmate.

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What happens

Genesis (French: Genèse) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Philippe Lesage and released in 2018. The film stars Théodore Pellerin and Noée Abita as Guillaume Bonnet and Charlotte, teenage half-siblings simultaneously struggling with romance; Charlotte is in a relationship with Maxime (Pier-Luc Funk), but is reeling from his proposal that they change to an open relationship, while Guillaume is a student at an all-boys boarding school who is developing a romantic and sexual attraction to his classmate Nicolas (Jules Roy Sicotte). The cast also includes Paul Ahmarani, Rose-Marie Perreault, Jean-Simon Leduc, Amaryllis Tremblay and Mylène Mackay. The film also includes a segment which shifts to focus on the story of Félix (Édouard Tremblay-Grenier), the lead character of Lesage's 2015 film The Demons (Les Démons). The film premiered at the Locarno Festival in the International Competition. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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