Micheline Bernard

Xavier Dolan’s sparkling drama features the beloved director before the camera in a touching role. Dolan co-stars in this tender, heartfelt story of a friendship between men from different classes that is challenged by the possibility of separation—and attraction.

Réal is a married man with two kids and a quiet life, until he meets Angie, a singer who works in a strip club. He falls under her spell, leaves his family, and discovers a netherworld that overturns his certainties and upends his life.