Canadian biopic of Brother Marie-Victorin, the author of La Flore Laurentienne, a botanical record of all species indigenous to southern Quebec. He is known as the father of the Botanical Garden of Montreal. As a narrative device, the film employs the hoary cliche of having the actors portray themselves in the present as well as the historical characters.
Brother Marie-Victorin was 46 when he met 23-year-old Marcelle Gauvreau. Both have been close to death and share the same love of God and Nature. He becomes her teacher, later she becomes his assistant. Their friendship evolves. Marie-Victorin offers Marcelle different readings on sexuality that she hastens to comment on from her own intimate experiences. In an epistolary exchange that will last until the death of Marie-Victorin, they explore human desires and “biology without a veil”. This great chaste love, the love of Quebec’s flora, pushes them to question their own relationship with love and Nature.
TRIVIA: This is the second time Mylene Mackay has played Marcelle Gauvreau, following her performance in Forgotten Flowers (Les fleurs oubliées, 2019).
The nudity:
Ariane Castellanos and Roberta Arguello
Mylene Mackay
After reading Uncle Scoopy’s summary, does anyone else think this sounds like one of the later “Death Wish” movies with Charles Bronson? Or maybe the one where Angel Tompkins plays his stripper ex-wife?
I was thinkin’ Farrelly Brothers.
Eh, six of one, twelve dozen of the other.