A young married woman from Montreal's Orthodox Jewish community finds freedom from the strictures of her faith through her relationship with a young man who is mourning the death of his estranged father.
In Maxime Giroux's latest feature, an unusual romance blossoms between two lost souls who inhabit the same neighbourhood but vastly different worlds. Meira (Hadas Yaron) is a young Hasidic Jewish mother in Montreal's Mile End district who secretly rebels against her faith by listening to soul music and taking birth control pills; Félix (Martin Dubreuil) is a loner grieving the recent death of his estranged father. Intrigued by Meira, Félix hopes her religious devotion will provide insight into his loss, and though she rebuffs him at first a mutual affection soon arises between the two. As Meira's desire for change becomes harder for her to hide, the young woman is faced with a stark choice: remain within the community she has always known, or pursue an uncertain future outside of it.
– Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
Countries
Canada- Awards
- Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film, Toronto International Film Festival 2014
- Festivals
- Toronto International Film Festival 2014, Whistler Film Festival 2014, Chicago International Film Festival 2014
- Director
- Maxime Giroux
- Producer
- Sylvain Corbeil and Nancy Grant
- Screenwriter
- Alexandre Laferrière and Maxime Giroux
- Editor
- Mathieu Bouchard-Malo
- Cast
- Martin Dubreuil, Hadas Yaron, Luzer Twersky