We’ve known for a long time what New York Times has just discovered, either that This is how I love you is a singular, sulphurous, insolent, intriguing and terribly amusing work.
Right, hair (and mustache!) in the (powder!) lineage of the films of Quentin Tarantino and the exploded universe of the brothers Joel and Ethan Coen in Fargo. It’s super funny, really tragic and deliciously nono at the same time.
The third and final season, which arrives Friday on Extra de Tou.tv, takes place in the summer of 1976 and brings back our favorite Sainte-Foy bosses, in addition to a host of new truculent or violent characters, played by Xavier Dolan, Robert Lepage, Catherine Trudeau, Yves Jacques, Patrick Hivon and Pier-Luc Funk. Let’s just say that these are not beginners.
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The team of This is how I love youpresent during a press viewing on Tuesday
Flash reminder, before diving into Serge Paquette’s (Patrice Robitaille) “above-ground” pool: the second season of This is how I love you ended in complete carnage, in the cornfield where the political lesbian Marie-Josée (Sophie Desmarais) united her destiny with that of the strange Lucien (Jean-François Provençal), who perished in the arms of his sweetheart after fought a violent erection.
The first episode of the third season picks up exactly at these purple weddings, where the praying mantis Grazia (Charlotte Le Bon) kidnapped little Cécile, the baby of Huguette and Gaétan Delisle (Marilyn Castonguay and François Létourneau).
The cry of rage uttered by Huguette was heard from Lac-Beauport to Lévis and is now part of criminal legends.
It seems that in times of good wind, you can still hear this terrifying howl. “As if the cry continued to travel, prisoner of wind and time, eternal witness to the suffering of a mother who mourns her missing daughter. » Hats off to screenwriter François Létourneau for this divine line. And hats off to Marilyn Castonguay, masterful in the mirror scene, you will understand when you watch it.
A year after Cécile’s kidnapping, Huguette Delisle’s Organization is no longer doing anything. The Montreal underworld has neutralized the Paquette-Delisle and maintains tight control over Fidean territory thanks to the four “knights of the apocalypse”, also nicknamed the sexists, played by Xavier Dolan, Pier-Luc Funk, Olivier Gervais-Courchesne and Mattis Savard-Verhoeven.
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Marilyn Castonguay in the role of boss Huguette Delisle
Racist and homophobic, these four bandits in brown clothes ensure that Serge, Micheline (Karine Gonthier-Hyndman), Huguette, Gaétan and Marie-Josée are no longer involved in any outlaw schemes. No more prostitution, the Golden Acorn, the Lucky Pussy and the cocaine trade. But for how long ?
Quebec has always hated being tamed and dominated by Montreal, we know that, and you suspect that Huguette, in murderous dormancy, will wake up and reload her rifle.
Direction: Montreal, where the Summer Olympics are taking place and where the villain on duty for this third season lives, the “consigliere”, a formidable and elegant lawyer played by Yves Jacques.
It is also in the metropolis that one of the evil Lavoie brothers (Patrick Hivon) lives, inspired by the Dubois brothers who ruled the west of the city during the 1970s. Bobby Lavoie operates a trendy nightclub, where our friends from Sainte-Foy will experience a completely crazy night.
In a magnificent counter-job, Robert Lepage plays the mayor of Sainte-Foy, Bernard Laporte, a complete macho who organizes the Miss Sainte-Foy competition for the sole purpose of ogling beautiful girls and measuring their chests.
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Robert Lepage in This is how I love you
“Bring the meat”, orders this crooked mayor to his secretary (Joëlle Paré-Beaulieu) so that she can send him the candidates, between two games of the video game Pong.
As for Catherine Trudeau, she dons the colorful dresses of the dapper Gysèle Truchon, the host of the show Summer in Quebec of Channel 4.
Excluding all those who perished last season (RIP Gaétan 2), the majority of characters in This is how I love you return in the final season, including the neighbor Anita (Catherine De Sève), Mario the priest (Patrick Drolet), Jeannine and Raymond (Chantal Fontaine and René Richard Cyr) as well as the policeman Roland (Alexis Lefebvre), still a couple in Micheline-les-narines.
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Sidekicks François Létourneau (Gaétan) and Patrice Robitaille (Serge)
This is how I love you is full of charming details like Martin’s Fun Dip, who trades his sewing machine for ballet-jazz, vintage cars (a Pinto, a Chevette!), Cocoa Puffs, cheese fondue from the restaurant La Tyrolienne and brie, the height of chic in Sainte-Foy, in the summer of 1976. “Brie, you’d think you were in Versailles!” », exclaims a guest at the “wine and cheese” organized by Huguette.
However, we must not forget the pivotal scene of the series now co-directed by Patrice Robitaille and François Létourneau: the one where the gigolo neighbor with a big penis Claude (Sébastien Rajotte) discovers the four corpses floating in the Delisles’ swimming pool.
We’ve been seeing this moment since the very first episode, released four years ago. Who are the victims of this butchery? Are they Serge, Micheline, Huguette and Gaétan? If so, who killed them?
The answer comes in the eighth episode (there are only eight instead of the usual ten) while the Sainte-Foy gang takes one last midnight bath, and surely another crème de menthe.
For those who will gobble up all the episodes on Friday, please keep it secret. Do it for Coco, for Puff and for all those innocent women who responded to Order 1870 and who fell in battle, thank you.