Simple as Sylvain | Images of the new film by Monia Chokri

A first excerpt from the feature film starring Magalie Lépine-Blondeau was unveiled on Monday. Simple as Sylvain is due to hit theaters in Quebec on September 22.

But before reaching Quebec screens, the director’s third film, after My brother’s wife (2019) and Baby sitter (2022), will have competed on May 18 at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un certain regard section.

With a cast that also includes Steve Laplante, Marie-Ginette Guay, Micheline Lanctôt, Christine Beaulieu, Mathieu Baron and Karelle Tremblay, Simple as Sylvain tells the story of Sophia, a professor of philosophy at the University of the Third Age, who leaves a comfortable relationship in order to live a passionate idyll with the Sylvain of the title, an entrepreneur from the Laurentians “at the antipodes of his way of life. »