After the play, the musical, here is finally the film: Our sisters-in-law, inspired by the famous play by Michel Tremblay, will be released in July. Its sparkling full trailer was revealed on Thursday.
René-Richard Cyr, co-creator with Daniel Bélanger of the musical Sisters-in-law, from which this adaptation for the cinema arises, is in the screenplay and direction. He surrounded himself with a brilliant cast in which we find Guylaine Tremblay, who was in the musical created in 2012 at the Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui.
Here, it’s Geneviève Schmidt who plays Germaine Lauzon, the lucky girl who won a million bonus stamps and who invites her sisters-in-law to help her stick them. The evening will turn sour, but not without discovering the frustrations, secrets and flaws that these women generally bury under several layers of unsaid things.
In addition to Geneviève Schmidt and Guylaine Tremblay, the film stars Valérie Blais, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Pierrette Robitaille and Véronic DiCaire, among others. Ariane Moffatt also made her cinema debut there.
The approach adopted by director René-Richard Cyr, whose musical comedy was exceptional, suggests a dynamic and colorful comedy, with inventive and offbeat musical scenes. The film will be released on July 11 and is likely to mark the coming summer.
The room Sisters-in-law, created in 1968, marked Michel Tremblay’s entry into Quebec theater, of which he has been the dominant figure ever since. His play caused a stir, particularly because of its use of joual, a literary transposition of the speech of French-speaking Montreal workers. The other crucial element of the play and the shock it caused is that it gave a voice to women who were rarely heard in the public space.