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Retrospective 2022 | Between shadow and light

Retrospective 2022 | Between shadow and light

The year 2022 has presented more of a dark side. An often dark horizon from which a few rays of sunshine nevertheless emerged. Our columnists come back to an event that made them believe in it and another that discouraged them. Posted at 7:00 a.m. One thing that made me hope PHOTO MARTIN TREMBLAY, PRESS ARCHIVES Adib Alkhalidey Quebecers Tabarnak by Adib Alkhalidey In his show, Adib…

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- Va jouer dehors, dir. Adib Alkhalidey, 2017.

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Matthias & Maxime (Xavier Dolan - 2019)

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Xavier Dolan & his actors on “Matthias et Maxime”

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Est-ce qu’on peut s’il vous-plaît s’entendre sur une odeur de purell tabarnack? C’est quoi ces odeurs de vodka moisie à la diarrhée, de tequila fermentée dans le trou de cul d’un chacal??

Y avait pu de lavande?

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Matthias & Maxime, Xavier Dolan (2019)

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Comedians of Middle Eastern Descent

Rawsan Hallak (Jordanian)

Adib Alkhalidey (Iraqi, Moroccan)

Dave Merheje (Lebanese)

Adi Khalefa (Palestinian)

Ibraheem Al-Khairallah (Saudi Arabian)

Moayad Al-Nefaie (Saudi Arabian)

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MON AMI WALID d’Adib Alkhalidey : J’pas débile, j’suis différent

Il n’y a pas grand-chose de plus subjectif que l’humour. Tu ris ou tu ne ris pas; tu es sur la même longueur d’onde que les auteurs/comédiens ou pas. Bref, je pourrais autant comprendre quelqu’un qui adore Mon ami Walid que quelqu’un qui le déteste, tellement c’est une proposition comique singulière, en rien consensuelle. 

Il faut le faire, quand même : une comédie sur le suicide et la maladie mentale. Un film peuplé de monde tout croche, de perdus, de laissés pour compte. Ça devrait être infiniment déprimant, et ce l’est si on si arrête, mais en même temps, c’est hilarant, grâce à un feu roulant de gags souvent vulgaires ou juvéniles, principalement mitraillés par le verbomoteur Antonin, incarné par le coscénariste, coproducteur et comonteur Julien Lacroix avec un cabotinage assumé. Encore là, on embarque ou pas, on trouve ça drôle ou insupportable.

Et puis aux côtés de Lacroix, il y a son coscénariste, coproducteur et comonteur Adib Alkhalidey, qui assure par ailleurs la réalisation en plus d’avoir collaboré à la composition de la jolie musique sentimentale et de jouer l’ami Walid qui, après une tentative de suicide, se retrouve pris avec Antonin, qui veut absolument s’assurer qu’il n’essaie pas à nouveau de s’enlever la vie. Humoriste talentueux, Alkhalidey est ici franchement touchant, évoquant perpétuellement une détresse tangible avec sa « face de j’veux-m’pendre ».

La majorité du film repose sur la dynamique improbable entre le maniaco Antonin et le dépressif Walid, mais il y a également quelques séquences collectives où nombre d’autres acteurs et actrices s’amusent fermement, comme celle au supermarché avec Guy Jodoin, Marie-Ève Perron, Martin Perizzolo, Joanie Guérin et Laurent Paquin, ou celle à la réunion des A.A. avec Christian Bégin, Sophie Cadieux, Yannick De Martino, Debbie Lynch-White et Dominic Paquet.

Mon ami Walid s’inscrit en quelque sorte dans la continuité des Scènes fortuites de Guillaume Lambert, autre comédie au budget modeste réalisée par une vedette de Like-moi!, mais j’ai trouvé le travail d’Alkhalidey plus abouti, trouvant un bel équilibre entre l’humour et l’émotion, à travers une série de scènes à la fois chaotiques et maîtrisées. Sans avoir l’ambition et l’ampleur de Magnolia, j’ai parfois pensé à ce chef-d’oeuvre de Paul Thomas Anderson à cause de la volonté d’aller dans les extrêmes, de surfer sur le malaise, de risquer la complaisance afin d’atteindre des moments d’une vérité aigüe. 

Ça fait un bon bout qu’un film ne m’avait pas autant fait rire, mais en même temps, ça m’a profondément ému. On revient à cette satanée subjectivité. Tu ris ou tu ne ris pas; tu pleures ou tu ne pleures pas. Je ne peux pas garantir que vous allez aimer Mon ami Walid. Je peux juste affirmer en toute sincérité que c’est un énorme coup de cœur pour moi. 

Actuellement en tournée à travers la province, Mon ami Walid prend l'affiche au Cinéma Beaubien ce vendredi 8 février.

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Découvrons-NOUS Adib Alkhalidey se raconte et rend compte de ce que nous avons à gagner en découvrant davantage.

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I just watched Matthias et Maxime (2019) directed, produced, written by & starring Xavier Dolan. I am in love with this “drama focusing on a group of friends in their late 20s.” Here are some screengrabs of my favorite lines with a brief rundown of the central characters.

Matthias (aka Matt, played by Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas) - Clearly trying to be the ‘grown up’ of the group. He’s gorgeous, but a total type A personality, severely repressed sexuality issues & is so emotionally constipated that it hurts to witness. I’ve watched the movie through 3 times already & still can’t decide if I like him or not, but he’s top billed in the title, so he gets the first slot on this post.

Maxime (aka Max play by Xavier Dolan) - The boy everyone loves & I adore him. Maybe he’s an underdog, maybe he’s comedic relief, maybe he’s just that buddy they could always rely on. Whatever it is, he’s the heart of the group. This whole movie is about his moving to Australia for a bit & the gang just wants to enjoy the time that they have left together because they know it’s time for growing up & probably all of them moving on. This particular line wasn’t his funniest or best, but I chose it because it’s the most important line of the whole movie & when Matt just left him there like that? It’s what adds the most weight to the “Don’t” side of the scale of whether I like Matt.

Rivette (aka Marc-Antoine according to his mother or Marco per his sister, played by Pier-Luc Funk) - My absolute FAVORITE! Picking just one line for him for this post was physically painful & I’m working on screengrabs just dedicated to him. He’s a psych major at Cambridge, mostly grown up, bossy af, funny af, gay? (according to his sister), dating a professor? (implied by the guys) & the cool rich kid whose parents always let him throw parties for his friends. He is, I think, the glue that’s kept them all together beyond high school & college.

Frank (aka Frankie played by Samuel Gauthier) - The protector & my precious. This line doesn’t do much to capture his character, but I still loved it. Frankie has a temper, but, I sense that, he’s the guy in the group that would be the first to protect & defend his friends. We see that when he refuses to let Matt’s bs ruin Max’s going away party, even though his fight with Matt totally ruins things for Max.

Brass (played by Antoine Pilon) - he’s the stoner dude-bro of the group. He’s not a standout character, for me, but he’s very included in the group & I love how they all are together so I, by default, love him.

Shariff (aka Benjamin Shariff per Matt's mom, played by Adib Alkhalidey) - This is not an image for him from this movie & he has some good lines in the movie that I could have grabbed, but I don’t care. When I saw that this was his IMDB profile picture, it immediately erased any other image I have for him. His character in this movie, though, is the “hipster rocker” that Matt is referring to in his picture above. Shariff is the cool, sexy one. Even Matt’s mom is crushing on him. (I also love Matt's mom in this movie.)

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Erika (played by Camille Felton) - Rivette’s little sister. She’s probably supposed to annoy everyone as much as she does Matt, but I love her. More than that, I love the insults that her brother has for her. “$24,000 a year to talk like a bimbo & Instagram her breakfast burrito” said Rivette on Erika & her efforts in film school. Here, she’s calling Matt & Max another generation when she can’t possibly be more than a few years younger than them. She is so pretentious & condescending with these guys. Most importantly, she’s the catalyst for the events in this movie. If you don’t know what it’s about, here we finally go.

Erika has tagged along with Rivette to their parent’s “cabin” to work on her film project, much to the dismay of her big bro’s friends who are there for a weekend party. She has a few of her own friends with her & was supposed to have a pair of actresses there to be in her film project for school, but they bail at the last minute so she asks for two of the guys to stand in. Max agrees to help her out because he's "the chillest" according to Erika. Matt loses a bet & has to do it. The roles they’re to play? Just a couple of guys making out for the camera. We don’t get to see what her camera captured & I demand a DVD or BluRay release of this film ASAP with that unedited footage. (Please, I beg whoever may hear me & have the power, tell me that this will happen!)

Whatever happens between Matt & Max during that filming session sends Matt into a bit of a tailspin. He obviously wants Max, but it’s clear that he feels he shouldn’t. Whether it’s self-imposed or something impressed upon him by a father we never meet in the movie, Matt has an obvious idea of what it means to be a grown man & loving Max isn’t part of that. His friend group is not part of it. His childhood dream of owning/running a farm with Max is most definitely not a part of it. But Max’s going away & that stupid film are threatening to derail his perfectly planned future where he’ll advance quickly through the ranks of his stuffy corporate(lawyer?) job & likely marry his very nice girlfriend Sarah.

How does it end? Ambiguously, I fear, for the romance. But I still love it because this group of characters outlined here? They work. Their story, as a whole, is very good, even if Matt & Max are the focal points. The cast chemistry is very believable & I hope some, if not all, of the cast are friends in real life.

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MATTHIAS & MAXIME

  MATTHIAS & MAXIME

Directed by Xavier Dolan

Runtime: 1h 59m

Cast: Xavier Dolan, Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas, Pier-Luc Funk, Samuel Gauthier, Antoine Pilon, Adib Alkhalidey, Anne Dorval, Micheline Bernard, Marilyn Castonguay, Catherine Brunet.

Synopsis: Matt and Max, two childhood best friends, are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in,…

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Matthias & Maxime

Recensie Matthias & Maxime ★★★★ - vanaf 25-6 in de bioscoop Het scenario is nog niet eens zo speciaal, maar het zijn de overige ingrediënten in deze film die ons een warm gevoel geven. We love Dolan! @septemberfilmnl #MatthiasetMaxime

De dramafilm Matthias & Maxime gaat over twee vrienden in een hechte vriendengroep. Tijdens de opname van een korte film zoenen de twee elkaar en dat maakt een hoop emoties los bij de twee. Helemaal nu Maxime van plan is om voor twee jaar naar Australië te verkassen. Wat wij van Matthias & Maxime vinden, lees je in onze recensie.

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