love for all
They have multiple sclerosis, suffer from intellectual disability or quadriplegia and cerebral palsy. François, 54, Marie Lee, 30, and Elisanne, 30, also have affective, emotional and physical needs like everyone else. Broadcast on the Canadian radio network, love and difference explores with great delicacy what the notions of love and sexuality mean for people with disabilities. It must be said that the director of the documentary, Helgi Piccinin, knows what he is talking about: in 2020, he invited the public to follow the efforts of Stéphane, his autistic brother, and Audrey, his atypical friend, to become champions. of the world of middle-distance running. For three years, his camera cast a benevolent gaze on these two athletes, who at the time were preparing to leave Canada for Dubai to compete in the Special Olympics.
Marie Lee, Elisanne and François confide in particular in all frankness on questions of intimacy and on their relationship to the language of love. Because it is important to him that everyone can have access to the dating, the latter, who was 20 years old when he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, is also developing an inclusive dating application. Fact, love and difference highlights inspiring stories punctuated with challenges where physical and/or intellectual differences do not alter the desire to love and be loved. Sometimes moving, sometimes amusing, the film reaches out to viewers to open the dialogue and begin a reflection on this social issue that is still very taboo and misunderstood, even though the subject is, however, universal.
love and difference
ICI Télé, Saturday, May 13, 10:30 p.m.
Body image scrutinized
Off to Shediac, New Brunswick, with Unis, to My mad dash for a 2-piece swimsuit, a captivating documentary in which we follow three people in their learning to accept and love the body in which they live. It all starts in 2020, when Rachel Duperrault, who has always been overweight despite a lifestyle she believes to be healthy, is told by her doctor that she has type 2 diabetes. emotions ranging from sadness to anger to frustration, she decides to go against her doctor’s recommendations and tries to manage her illness by changing her diet and ignoring medical treatments. Her goal: to maintain her efforts to go to the beach in a two-piece swimsuit for the first time in her life!
For his part, Stef Paquette has challenged himself to get back in shape for his 50th birthday after suffering a heart attack. After quitting smoking and drinking, changing his diet and starting physical exercises, he finally managed to lose weight. Rachel Duperrault and Stef Paquette also present those who give them the motivation and energy necessary to achieve their full potential thanks to their exemplary career. Without any judgment and with a lot of hope, My mad dash for a 2-piece swimsuit draws the public’s attention to acceptance and self-love, but also to overcoming one’s limits and the importance of a balance between good physical health and listening to one’s needs and desires.
“Is she enough sexy ? Crave, for its part, makes available to its subscribers the fascinating documentary bodyparts, in French version with subtitles, which examines how the naked female body has always been hypersexualized, abused, subjugated and exploited on Hollywood screens. The documentary, directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan (Going on 13), further addresses how the standardized image of women and their sexuality has been objectified, conservatively shaped, and narrowed down by the powerful men of American cinema. bodypartsgives voice, among others, to actresses Jane Fonda, Rose McGowan and Rosanna Arquette as well as screenwriters Joey Soloway (Transparent) and Angela Robinson (L Word).
As for the Netflix platform, she is interested in the life of model, actress and reality TV personality Anna Nicole Smith through the eyes of her loved ones. Remember that this one, who died tragically at the age of 39 in 2007, has throughout her life been the subject of inappropriate and misogynistic comments in the media about her appearance as a “bimbo” and her reputation as a “man-eater”.
My mad dash for a 2-piece swimsuit
United, Monday, May 15, 9 p.m.
bodyparts
Crave, from May 15
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me
Netflix, from May 16