Benoît Brière joins us Untenable It is the time of a sordid history, the course of which will seriously question our values. This proposal, spread over 13 episodes, is light years away from the comic book characters he usually plays on the small screen.
In the justice newspaper, the 58-year-old actor lends his features to an extremely strict Baptist priest who mistreats and psychologically abuses his five children.
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For Martial Quintal and his wife Myriam Ferron (Ingrid Falaise), “a punishment is the love of God,” nothing less. They raise their offspring according to the principles of the gospel – everything taken literally – and in the Christian faith. Nothing is let go in this family, and as viewers will discover, this story will go far, very far.
From one punishment to the next, the image of the perfect little family presented at the beginning will take its toll. The Quintal-Ferrons, who Benoît Brière describes as “a restless family that ignores each other on a human and moral level and under the guise of a religion,” live in isolation and do not hesitate to rebuke the little ones with a ruler or a fist. When we see the mother playing, we even wonder if she isn’t even tougher than the father.
The couple’s ten-year-old daughter, Déborah (Gabrielle Landry), the most rebellious in their eyes, is locked in a dark and shabby room, which will earn the family a visit from the authorities.
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“It’s great to be able to play this. That would not be my basic occupation from the start, but long live the anti-occupation,” said Benoît Brière, who is an atheist but whose curiosity encouraged him to explore the life, even fictional, of this man on the other side of him.
“My job is not to judge my character. If you are perfectly indoctrinated, it justifies the way you behave. I said to myself: This guy is always right and everyone else is wrong. He loves his children very much, but the fact that he is indoctrinated and raises them this way is the problem.”
In addition, the parents are obsessed with their homosexual neighbor (Frédéric Boudreault), who they believe is clearly living in complete sin.
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The Quintal-Ferron family’s life is inspired by that of a family with 11 children. Your balance will be destroyed and the situation between the parents will worsen. Let’s assume that a heavy secret also hangs over this house, like the sword of Damocles.
Benoît Brière continues to play in Broue with his friends Martin Drainville and Luc Guérin. The three men will go on tour again in autumn 2024. Until then, we’ll see Brière in the series Projet Innocence, L’aréna and Empathy, as well as another TV project that he can’t say a word about at the moment.
An obsessive admirer
Additionally, this week in “Indefensible,” the intrigue surrounding singer Louna Rose (Roxane Bruneau) continues as her greatest admirer, Mylène (Rebecca Vachon), remains completely obsessed with her.
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We also follow the trial of Tania Jarkov (Guinièvre Sandré), who disfigured her friend Élodie (Mirianne Brûlé) with magic mushrooms one evening, and we meet Shawn Godin (Pierre-Paul Alain), a former soldier suffering from post-traumatic shock . The man who works at the Olympic Park is going to get into trouble.
Produced by Pixcom in collaboration with Quebecor Content, the daily Indéfendable airs on TVA from Monday to Thursday at 7 p.m. The last episode before the holiday break is scheduled for Thursday, December 14th.