Vanishing lines | When the friendship balloon bursts

The movie vanishing lines, which brings together Catherine Chabot, Mariana Mazza and Léane Labrèche-Dor, recounts the reunion – which goes wrong – of three high school friends. The work seen by its creators and performers.

Emily Costa
Press

“How comforting, yet toxic and boring friendship can be. With her usual candor, Mariana Mazza couldn’t have summed up the film’s plot better. lines of flightwhich 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 […] listen to the urge to be ourselves. »

Catherine Chabot says that she took all “her heartaches and contradictions” to integrate them into six characters who are the “crossroads age” of thirty. “That night, everyone is going through a crisis and has blind spots. »

Despite their great differences, they all ask the same questions. “Am I in the right place and have I made the right decisions? “, She continues.

One thing is certain, the tension increases throughout the night of the reunion. “We feel that the presto is going to explode”, as Catherine Chabot says.

Make you laugh and think.

Catherine Chabot worked in co-production with Miryam Bouchard (My own circus, December 23). The latter liked that the film addresses eco-anxiety with humor. To use his words, lines of flight it makes us “laugh and feel really guilty.”

We won’t tell you more about these famous scenes… But know that lines of flight It lives up to its title of dramatic comedy.

The clash of values ​​of the characters gives rise to tasty dialogues that can remind those of the Decline of the American Empire.

For Léane Labrèche-Dor, the film denounces the status quo that we endure day after day until “the balloon bursts”. She is delighted to see imperfect characters in the movies, including her own. Like Valerie, we are all jealous of our friends at one point or another in our lives. The film deftly makes us understand “that we don’t want to be that”.

In fact, we and our environment are in each of the six characters. “We all have an anxious friend or another who makes boring comments,” says Mariana Mazza.

“We have all lived through an evening where the alcohol arrives and we start to say truths that we shouldn’t have said, adds Mickaël Gouin. What I like about the movie is that no one is right and no one is wrong. »

“Humor is often the best way to deal with a subject,” adds who is delighted to be in a movie that is as funny as it is intelligent.

A closed session of 45 minutes.

The scene leading up to the end turns out to be behind closed doors for about forty minutes. To make the game as convincing as possible, director Miryam Bouchard notes that the actors and actresses rehearsed for a week before turning on the cameras, and that the filming was done largely in chronological order. “It was a great luxury. »

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

At a press conference, Mariana Mazza also said that she admired Léane Labrèche-Dor and Catherine Chabot, who were breastfeeding their babies during filming.

Say Catherine Chabot originally wrote lines of flight because she wondered if she could have children in our warming world…

“The answer is 16 months old and her name is Josefina. So yes, there is hope! “, she concluded.

lines of flight hits theaters July 6.