Fête des mères : Diptyque familial

In Mother’s Day: A Family Diptych, we meet Louise and her two brothers, Gabriel and Ziggy, as well as their partners Arthur and Florence, on Mother’s Day, and then we catch up with them five years later at Louise’s wedding.

During these two events, our characters navigate that strange period when you’re no longer supposed to be a child, even if you don’t quite want to be an adult yet. 

The first part has a touch of a lighthearted comedy, even though the laughter never overshadows the emotion… Louise, a former math student turned comedian, returns to her mother’s house after a three-year absence. Following a scathing sketch, mother and daughter are no longer on speaking terms. For the occasion, she reunites with her brothers, Gabriel and Ziggy, as well as Arthur and Florence, whose excessive drinking both poisons and lightens the atmosphere. The mother’s absence is first surprising, then worrisome. This Mother’s Day will be the occasion for a reckoning that is as cruel as it is cathartic.

The second installment follows in the tradition of the romantic comedy, where humor invites us to reflect on love, commitment, and our life choices… Five years later, Louise is about to marry… the wrong person—everyone knows it, except her. For some obscure reason, the mother is absent once again, and her absence must be hidden from Florence, who has become sober but completely unmanageable. Gabriel is divorced, Arthur is in love, and Ziggy returns from Japan a