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A Brother's Love (2019)

A Brother's Love poster
Original title
La femme de mon frère
Directed by
Monia Chokri
Genre
drama film, comedy film, comedy drama
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 57m
Rated
U
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 83 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in her late twenties shares an unusually close bond with her brother. When he begins a serious relationship with her gynecologist, she feels threatened and must confront her own direction in life.

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What happens

A Brother's Love (French: La femme de mon frère, lit. 'My Brother's Wife') is a 2019 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Monia Chokri. It had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. It was released theatrically in Canada on 7 June 2019 by Les Films Séville. 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 (Evelyne Brochu). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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