The first images of new original Télé Quebec fiction “L’air d’aller,” which focuses on four friends with cystic fibrosis who want above all to live, have just been unveiled.
Actors Noémie Leduc-Vaudry (“It’s Like I Love You”), Antoine Olivier Pilon (“Mama”), Joakim Robillard (“Can You Hear Me?”), and Catherine St-Laurent (“District 31 ’) in this dramatic comedy, the first ever by author Jean-Christophe Réhel. The latter knows the subject because he himself suffers from cystic fibrosis.
“What makes me proud of “L’air d’aller” is that we can tackle somewhat difficult topics and at the same time laugh about them. We managed to create a very colourful, unique and connecting universe. My goal in writing this series was never to democratize the disease. It’s just to write something that could reach as many people as possible,” Mr Réhel said in a press release on Thursday.
This project is presented as a “realistic, intimate and hopeful portrait” of friends united in the face of illness.
When Cindy, Gabriel, Jimmy and Katrine are alerted that one of them would only be staying for a few months, they use “self-mockery and resilience” to “try together to forget the ordeal ahead.” By multiplying the excursions and activities, their “drive for life” has been specified, which creates an air of freedom at home.
The cast also counts on the talent of Marc Béland, Yves Bélanger, Denis Bernard, Ryan Bommarito, Martin Drainville, Vincent Graton, Simon Landry-Désy, Dominique Leduc, Anick Lemay, Sylvie Moreau, Iannicko N’Doua, Antoine Pilon, Dominique Quesnel , Mathieu Richard and Antoine Yared.
This is Télé-Québec’s first original feature film series since Can You Hear Me?, which was a hit when it aired.
“The poet and novelist Jean-Christophe Réhel offers us a first luminous work imbued with great humanity. The originality and audacity of this proposal, without forgetting the fact that it allows us to discover new faces, are part of the DNA of what we want to offer to Télé-Québec in original fiction,” said the vice-president of content for the public- legal broadcaster, Nadine Dufour.
- URBANIA is thus producing its very first feature film, directed by Sarah Pellerin. Broadcasting begins Thursday, March 23 at 9 p.m. on Télé-Québec.