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'A Brother's Love' is a 2019 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Monia Chokri. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Following its Cannes premiere, the film had its Canadian theatrical premiere on 7 June.

The film stars Anne-lisabeth Boss as Sophia, an immature university graduate student who is forced to reassess her life when her brother Karim (Patrick Hivon), with whom she has always had a very close and codependent relationship, falls in love with her gynecologist loise (Evelyne Brochu).

Plot



Sophia earns her PhD for her thesis on Antonio Gramsci, but discovers a lack of teaching positions available in her field and is saddled with student debt. At age 35, she lives rent-free with her brother Karim and leads tours at a local art gallery. Pregnant, Sophia seeks an abortion and she and Karim meet Elose, a doctor. Elose recognizes Karim as a man she met and slept with when she first moved to Montreal several years ago. Although Karim does not remember Elose, they agree to see each other again. After the abortion, Sophia tells Karim he should date a woman like Elose, but is turned off when he replies he will see Elose herself. Sophia loses her job at the gallery and decides to write a novel. She returns to Karim's apartment and speaks loudly about how she imagined Karim's date with Elose went, speculating Elose is frigid and shallow. Sophia is embarrassed to see Elose is in the apartment. Envious and concerned about Karim entering into an increasingly serious relationship, Sophia watches Elose as she interacts with Karim.

Elose and Karim take Sophia to a dinner, and Elose also brings her best friend Jasmin, a male midwife. Concerned she has been lured into a double date, Sophia is offended when Jasmin says giving birth is the most important event of a woman's life; Sophia never wants to have children. Jasmin and Sophia share a taxi, and Jasmin asks to see her again, though Sophia is reluctant. Elose then joins Karim and Sophia in a dinner with their parents. There, Sophia engages in a heated argument over her family, saying the world is overpopulated (when Elose expresses a desire for children) and her eight years of education were for nothing. Sophia storms out and refuses to apologize. She leaves Karim's apartment for a room at Jasmin's apartment; she also accepts a job as a French-language tutor for immigrants in the suburbs. Jasmin and Sophia have sex; the next morning, Sophia rushes to her new job and struggles on where to begin.

Sophia visits Elose in her office and tearfully apologizes for her behaviour at their last dinner. She confesses she had never seen her brother so happy. Elose replies by comparing the sibling relationship to atomic theory; since people are made up of atoms, they inherit their atoms from their parents, and she understands Karim and Sophia share a connection.

Cast



* Anne-lisabeth Boss as Sophia

* Patrick Hivon as Karim

* Evelyne Brochu as Elose

* Magalie Lpine-Blondeau as Anabelle Lajoie

* Sasson Gabai as Hichem

* Niels Schneider as Alex

* Mylne Mackay

* Micheline Bernard as Lucie

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