From the television adaptation of The night Laurier Gaudreault woke up, we don’t know everything yet. While Michel Marc Bouchard’s play was presented at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in 2019, Xavier Dolan will offer before the end of the year, probably this fall, its own version on Club Illico.
No trailer has yet been unveiled, but the few pictures recently published on social networks show a filmmaker back in front of and behind the camera. He is notably accompanied by part of the original cast of this family drama seen on the boards of the TNM three years ago, including Julie Le Breton and Magalie Lépine-Blondeau. Remember that Xavier Dolan had already brought a work by the Quebec playwright to the screen with the feature film Tom at the farmselected at the Venice Film Festival in 2013.
feminine strength
Rebecca Makonnen puts the public in contact with expatriate Quebec women in The ambassadors (ICI TÉLÉ, Saturdays at 9 p.m. starting September 17). At the microphone of the host, a dozen women, for example Farah Alibay, an aerospace engineer at NASA, or even Katheline Jean-Pierre Coleman, director of the Sales and Business Department of Google, talk about their extraordinary career which pushed them to leave the province, but also their vision of exile and the mixing of cultures.
In the documentary Janette and daughters (Télé-Québec, October 12), Lea Clermont-Dion examines the life and fight for gender equality in Quebec of Janette Bertrand, now nearly 100 years old. Guylaine Tremblay, Martine Delvaux, Noémi Mercier or even Kim Lizotte evoke the influence that the artist and journalist had on them.
In the footsteps of Anachnid (ICI TÉLÉ, Saturday December 10) takes the form of a road trip television where the singer-songwriter, AnachnidMontreal-based oji-cree, talks to other musicians.
Moving
Disrupted climate, health in danger (Télé-Québec, Wednesday, September 28 at 8 p.m.) is one of those documentaries that raises ever-stronger alerts and raises questions: although the climate change crisis is already having direct consequences on our mental and physical health, the provincial and federal governments however, do not seem ready to take the appropriate measures…
On another note, the documentary series in four episodes The most beautiful province (TRUE, Tuesdays from September 20), produced by William Sylvester and put into words by Denys Arcandportrays with passion what is currently shaping Quebec and does not forget, in passing, to mention the French people of the Plateau Mont-Royal.
For his part, the professor Laurent Turcotoffers a complete and unusual health check of science in The crazy history of medicine (HERE EXPLORA, this fall). He thus returns with a good dose of humor to the care provided, from Hippocrates to the present day.
The end of autumn will also be marked by after the flood (Crave, from December), a fiction series from Mara Jolywho is interested in the character of Maxime Salomon (Penande Estime).
To avoid a criminal record, this police officer takes care of four young people in difficulty and introduces them, despite the warnings of those around her, to MMA (mixed martial arts), a violent combat sport that is far from unanimous. Note that France Castel, Marilyse Bourke, Karl Walcott, Émile Schneider and Jean-Moïse Martin are also in the cast.
Don’t lose the north
This fall, La Fabrique culturelle promises to make our mouths water with Flavours: discovering indigenous cuisinesa series of three capsules available on its website (theculturalfactory.tv). Several skills of the First Peoples, ranging from lobster fishing to bustard hunting and seaweed gathering, will be highlighted, among other things.
Find the North (True, from October) is an eight-part documentary directed by Michael Johnson. Through the daily life of an adventurer and his family settled in the midst of the grandiose landscapes of Iqaluit, we follow the challenges of an entire population.
Thanks to the stories of Michael John, Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush and Magalie Lapointe, Facing the Devil of the North Shore (True, from November 2022) deconstructs the journey of controversial missionary Alexis Joveneau. He is known for having published the first works in Innu-Aimun, but also for having committed abuses (sexual, physical, psychological and financial) within the Innu community.
The family in all its forms
Acadian production Shared custody (Unis TV, Tuesdays at 7 p.m. from September 20) is a sketch comedy — which also has nearly 200 — by Christian Essiambre which explores the reality of parents who share custody of their children. A wacky spirit and off-the-wall situations allow you to approach different facets of the life of single-parent or blended families, at home, at work, at school, at daycare or during moments of relaxation in the park or at the restaurant.
In an opposite register, the authors Anne Boyer and Michel d’Astous looked at mental health with the complex but luminous journey of a woman who has just been released from prison.
in fiction My mother (TVA, Tuesday at 8 p.m. from November 8), Chantal, played by Chantal Fontaine, was indeed diagnosed at the age of 58 with bipolar disorder during her incarceration. Despite conflicting relationships with her children, including Valérie (Marilyn Castonguay), she nevertheless takes a new path towards reconstruction and healing.
Finally, Migratory hearts (Canal Vie, Wednesdays at 8 p.m. starting November 2) is a documentary series that invites viewers to consider the pitfalls, such as waiting for a visa, adjusting to a new life and multiculturalism, encountered by couples where one spouse is a newcomer to Canada.