90s rom-com where love gets a software update and crashes immediately.
Un homme seul. Une femme seule. Lui, à l'aide de son ordinateur, voudrait désormais pouvoir gérer ses relations amoureuses; elle, de son côté, désire continuer à mener une vie autonome. Philippe et Hélène vivent donc dans une bulle, en solitaires, soignant les blessures d'une relation précédente, jusqu'au jour où ils se rencontrent. C'est le coup de foudre! Mais ils ont si peu en commun, sinon la peur de se faire mal, de décevoir et d'être déçus, de se tromper à nouveau... A single man. A single woman. Him, only wanting to interact with romantic relationships through his computer screen. Her, wanting to have an autonomous life. Phillipe and Hélène live their lives in a solitary bubble, healing their wounds from a previous relationship, until they meet. It's love at first sight! but they have so little in common, except the fear of being hurt, of dissapointing or be dissapointed, of being wrong again...
Acting
Marc Messier's gloriously awkward bachelor energy.
Writing
Dialogue that treats emotional walls like dial-up internet.
Director
Paule Baillargeon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
A rare 90s Quebec TV movie capturing pre-internet anxieties about technology replacing human connection.
Paule Baillargeon, better known as an actress in Denys Arcand films, directs with a wry eye for romantic self-sabotage.
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