![]() ![]() Cédric is subsequently suspended from his job, to the chagrin of his girlfriend Nadine (Chokri), with whom he recently had a baby. The film opens with a shitfaced Cédric (Patrick Hivon) making the ill-advised decision to kiss a female news reporter without her consent during a broadcast. He and his girlfriend hire a mysterious and liberated babysitter to help shake things up.ĭirector Monia Chokri’s ( A Brother’s Love) sophomore feature is a skittish adaptation of Catherine Léger’s play, and though the film’s screenplay was penned by Léger herself, Babysitter confirms the challenges associated with translating stories across scripted mediums. Amy the babysitter free#In theaters everywhere in Quebec.Starring Patrick Hivon, Monia Chokri, Nadia Tereszkiewcz, Steve Laplante, and Hubert Proulx.Īfter a sexist joke goes viral, Cédric loses his job and embarks on a therapeutic journey to free himself from sexism and misogyny. With Patrick Hivon, Monia Chokri, Steve Laplante, Nadia Tereszkiewcz, Hubert Proulx, Stéphane Moukarzel, Ève Duranceau, Nathalie Breuer and Patrice Dubois. The scene alone justifies all the fantasy that Monia Chokri wanted to bring to this comedy of manners with an offbeat tone, where everyone delivers their score perfectly.Ĭomedy of manners by Monia Chokri. Then comes this pursuit in a disenchanted forest, the most powerful sequence of Baby sitter, where the roles are reversed, where the wolf becomes the vulnerable prey of a voracious Little Red Riding Hood. ![]() With the risk of eclipsing the finesse of Catherine Léger’s reflection. at the end of time”, with scenes alternately wacky, naughty and ferocious. Much less wise than for his first feature film, My brother’s wife, Monia Chokri enjoys revisiting the fairy tale, moving away from the chaste pink of Disney to embrace the scoundrel red of the Brothers Grimm, crushing this eternal promise made to little girls stuffed with princess stories, “and they lived happily ever after. In several scenes, the female bodies, often deprived of a face or a head, are fragmented to the point of causing discomfort: here, a haughty chest that covers half of the screen there, a rounded rump as a vanishing point. Under the dumbfounded gaze of Nadine, Cédric and Jean-Michel, Amy will even put on a maid costume to make Buñuel damn. Inspired by the erotic films of the 1970s by Just Jaeckin and David Hamilton, the era of vaseline-coated lenses and the codes of the giallo, they make the baby sitter sometimes solar, sometimes sulphurous, sometimes fairy, sometimes witch. Crossed looksĭriven by dialogues that happily challenge sexual stereotypes, Baby sitter won’t leave anyone indifferent by the way Monia Chokri and the director of photography Josée Deshaies, faithful accomplice of Denis Côté ( Curling) and Bertrand Bonnelo ( Saint Laurent), to criticize, even to ridicule, the “ male gauze (male gaze). Largely thanks to the aesthetic choices of the filmmaker, which will leave some dumbfounded, others dumbfounded. In the hands of Monia Chokri, the visionary play, slightly reworked up to date by the playwright herself, takes on a grittier and more audacious turn. Thanks to his contacts in the industry, Jean-Michel finds a publisher (Patrice Dubois, who seems to come straight out of a film by Lynch or Kubrick), who immediately smells a good deal.Ĭreated in 2017, shortly before the #MeToo movement took off around the world, the piece Baby sitter by Catherine Léger, screenwriter of Charlotte has fun, by Sophie Lorain, gently twisted relationships of domination, sexual stereotypes and the principle of double standards. Sexist Story, suggests the title Amy (Nadia Tereszkiewcz), a new nanny who has magically appeared in the couple’s life. While chatting with her brother Jean-Michel (Steve Laplante), journalist and self-proclaimed feminist - beware of those! -, Cédric undertakes to write a letter of apology to Chantal Tremblay in the form of a book. ![]()
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