Last night, I went to the movies with Alicia… the two of us are avid fans of made in Québec films and we wanted to see «J’ai tué ma mère»… a movie that was nominated for five categories at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It actually received the Art Cinema Award, the Regards Jeunes Prize and the SACD Prize… quite an achievement for Xavier Dolan (age 20) who wrote, directed and played the main character in this movie. That being said, anyone who enjoys movie series such as Tranformers or Terminator would not really appreciate this kind of movies… only because there is no action!
This morning, I had a short chat on Skype with an English-speaking friend of mine who asked me what was the title of the movie I had seen… A few minutes later, he sent me a link with the movie detailed description. I was kind of puzzled… I had to check twice to make sure it was the same movie I had seen with Alicia. Of course, I told my friend what the movie was really about!… According to this american website, the plot is: A semi-autobiographical about Dolan as a young homosexual at odds with his mother… First of all, the main character is fictive although probably inspired by several stories… Yes, Hubert (the 16 year old main character) is marginal because of his homosexuality yet a typical teenager who is in a love-hatred relationship with his mother. And being gay is not the reason for this ambiguous mother/son relationship… Obviously he accepts his homosexuality and it is not a big deal for his mother either.
It is the story of an often stormy relationship between a teenager and his mother… it is about growing up… it is about that phase between childhood and adulthood… not necessarily the easiest, but not the worst either… it is only a passage rite…
Ah!… L’influence de l’anglais…
Today is Canada Day… a statutory holiday… But!.. For me, it is a regular working day: people who will be tested soon on their competencies in French need my help… and today is not different from any other day of the year!
Since I do not have much time left before my next online training session starts, I will give you updates later this week.
Once again, I thought you would like to test whether you are influenced by English or not… I found an interesting text in which you will have to decide what words to use. Working on avoiding anglicism being part of my daily life, I got a perfect score on this one! Is it difficult? I could not really tell… there might be a couple of traps yet I am not sure, you will be the judge!
What I love most about my country is that we are a multicultural society… and today’s celebrations make sure to aknowledge and reflect this reality…
I am proud of being a Canadian!
To try out my test, click here…
Bonne Fête du Canada!
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