Twenty years after his first solo show, Louis-José Houde reinvents himself (in part) with A Thousand Bad Choices, a fifth intimate, cynical and dark (but first and foremost funny!) one-man show in which he portrays his daily since his breakup with actress Magalie Lépine-Blondeau (whom he never names). Captured on 16 mm cinematographic film at the Lion d’Or cabaret in May 2022, this performance rich in secrets reveals a humorist who is sometimes vulnerable (he lives alone in a too big house in which he was to start a family), sometimes splitting (doesn’t achalez more with your anecdotes that never end). The faithful will not be too destabilized. Skeptics might be confused.
Our favorite times of the year are (in order) Christmas, summer, the first ski descent after a big snowstorm… and the announcement of the contestants for The Island of Love. And this season, the email revealing the identities of the first 10 islanders in jerseys did not disappoint. From Kim, who fancies “a guy who can change his own car tires,” to Léonie, who once “broke her elbow playing arm wrestling,” to Kevin, who collects scented candles , Destiny, an aspiring magician who “can make hats out of balloons”, and Dan, who eats three raw eggs a day, the 2023 vintage promises. Another plus point: Geneviève Schmidt provides the narration, supporting host Olivier Dion.
At the same time as the sixth and final episode of Désobéir: Chantale Daigle’s Choice arrives, the fiction series about the icon of the pro-choice movement who fought all the way to the Supreme Court to claim her right to an abortion, arrives this vibrant documentary carried by Noémi Mercier. For nearly an hour, the former Noovo antenna manager takes us back to this sensitive period of 1989, using archive images and enlightening interviews, with activists in particular, who recount in detail the secret operation they carried out to enable Chantale to cross the border and obtain her abortion in Boston, United States.
In this documentary series scripted and directed by Sabrina Hammoum (A roof for me, Koriass, coming back from afar), the rapper Sarahmée travels the world to meet determined and united women who wish to change their conditions. The season started last Friday in France. This week, Sarahmée stops in Mexico, a country with bleak statistics on violence against women, including the following: in 2021, 3,880 women were murdered there, or 10 women a day. And less than a quarter of those murders have been investigated. We can also see the singer practicing rock climbing and recording a new song in the company of female musicians who talk about the discrimination they suffer.
