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Genesis (2018 Canadian film)
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'Genesis' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Philippe Lesage and released in 2018.[https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/genesis-locarno-review/5131453.article "'Genesis': Locarno Review"]. 'Screen Daily', August 5, 2018. The film stars Thodore Pellerin and Noe Abita as Guillaume Bonnet and Charlotte, teenage half-siblings simultaneously struggling with romance; Charlotte is in a relationship with Maxime (Pier-Luc Funk), but is reeling from his proposal that they change to an open relationship, while Guillaume is a student at an all-boys boarding school who is developing a romantic and sexual attraction to his classmate Nicolas (Jules Roy Sicotte).[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/genesis-genese-1132342 "'Genesis' ('Genese'): Film Review | Locarno 2018"]. 'The Hollywood Reporter', August 28, 2018.
Premiered at the 'Locarno Festival' in the International Competition, the film has won numerous awards including the Golden Wolf (Festival of New Cinema, Montreal), Best Film and Best Director Awards at 'Seminci' in Valladolid (Spain) and Best Film at 'Los Cabos International Film Festival' (Mexico) festivals. The film was also selected at the renowned Museum of Modern Art and Film Society of Lincoln Center 'New Directors/New Films Festival' , 'AFI FEST', and 'Rotterdam Film Festival'. The film got very positive reviews from 'The New York Times' (Critic's pick), 'Variety', 'The Los Angeles Times', 'Hollywood Reporter', and 'The Globe and Mail' among others. It ranked #16 best films of 2019 by 'Metacritic'.
The cast also includes Paul Ahmarani, Rose-Marie Perreault, Jean-Simon Leduc and Mylne Mackay. The film also includes a segment which shifts to focus on the story of Flix (douard Tremblay-Grenier), the lead character of Lesage's 2015 film 'The Demons (Les Dmons)'.[https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/genesis-review-1202899203/ "Film Review: Genesis"]. 'Variety', August 8, 2018.
The film received an honorable mention for the Best Canadian Film award at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival. In December 2018, the Toronto International Film Festival named the film to its annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list.[https://nowtoronto.com/movies/features/tiff-canadas-top-ten-2018/ "TIFF's Canada's Top Ten list skews a lot younger this year"]. 'Now', December 5, 2018.
'Genesis' received three Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards, for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay (Lesage) and Best Supporting Actor (Ahmarani).Barry Hertz, [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/article-2019-canadian-screen-awards-lean-toward-quebec-and-the-obscure-and/ "2019 Canadian Screen Awards lean toward Quebec and the obscure, and thank goodness for that"]. 'The Globe and Mail', February 7, 2019. It also received five Prix Iris nominations at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards, for Best Film, Best Actor (Pellerin), Best Supporting Actor (Funk), Best Editing (Mathieu Bouchard-Malo) and Best Make-Up (Dominique T. Hasbani).
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