We've known for a long time what the New York Times just discovered, that “It's Like That How I Love You” is a unique, sulphurous, outrageous, fascinating and terribly amusing work.
Published at 01:32 am. Updated at 5:46 a.m
That's right, hair (and mustache!) in the (powdery!) lineage of Quentin Tarantino's films and the shattered universe of brothers Joel and Ethan Coen in Fargo. It's super funny, really tragic and deliciously nono at the same time.
The third and final season, which arrives on Friday on Extra de Tou.tv, is set in the summer of 1976 and brings back our favorite bosses from Sainte-Foy, in addition to a host of new unruly or violent characters played by Xavier Dolan, Robert Lepage, Catherine Trudeau, Yves Jacques, Patrick Hivon and Pier-Luc Funk. Let's just say these aren't beginners.
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The team from That's how I love you, present at a press conference on Tuesday
Flash memory before diving into Serge Paquette's (Patrice Robitaille) “above ground” swimming pool: The second season of C'est comme ça que je t'aime ended in complete carnage in the cornfield where political lesbian Marie-Josée (Sophie Desmarais) linked her fate to that of the strange Lucien (Jean-François Provençal), who died in the arms of his lover after struggling against a violent erection.
The first episode of the third season picks up precisely at these purple weddings, where the praying mantis Grazia (Charlotte Le Bon) kidnaps little Cécile, the baby of Huguette and Gaétan Delisle (Marilyn Castonguay and François Létourneau).
The scream of rage that Huguette let out was heard from Lac-Beauport to Lévis and is now part of criminal legends.
It seems that when the wind is fair you can still hear that terrible howl. “As if the scream traveled on, prisoner of wind and time, eternal witness to the suffering of a mother mourning her missing daughter. » Hats off to screenwriter François Létourneau for this divine line. And hats off to Marilyn Castonguay, masterful in the mirror scene, you'll understand when you watch it.
A year after Cécile's kidnapping, Huguette Delisle's organization no longer does anything. The Montreal underworld has neutralized the Paquette-Delisle and maintains tight control over the territory of the Fidean thanks to the four “Knights of the Apocalypse”, also called sexists, played by Xavier Dolan, Pier-Luc Funk, Olivier Gervais-Courchesne and Mattis Savard. Verhoeven.
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Marilyn Castonguay in the role of boss Huguette Delisle
Racist and homophobic, these four bandits in brown clothing ensure that Serge, Micheline (Karine Gonthier-Hyndman), Huguette, Gaétan and Marie-Josée are no longer involved in any outlaw plans. Stop prostitution, the Golden Acorn, the Lucky Pussy and the cocaine trade. But how long?
Quebec has always hated being tamed and dominated by Montreal, we know that, and you suspect that Huguette will wake up in murderous calm and reload her rifle.
Directed by: Montreal, where the Summer Olympics take place and where the villain of this third season lives, the “Consigliere”, an impressive and elegant lawyer played by Yves Jacques.
One of the evil Lavoie brothers (Patrick Hivon), inspired by the Dubois brothers who ruled the west of the city in the 1970s, also lives in the metropolis. Bobby Lavoie runs a trendy nightclub where our friends from Sainte-Foy perform. Experience a completely crazy night.
In a great counter-job, Robert Lepage plays the mayor of Sainte-Foy, Bernard Laporte, a pure macho man who organizes the Miss Sainte-Foy contest for the sole purpose of ogling beautiful girls and measuring their breasts.
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Robert Lepage in “That’s How I Love You.”
“Bring the meat,” this corrupt mayor orders his secretary (Joëlle Paré-Beaulieu) to send him the candidates between two games of the video game Pong.
Catherine Trudeau wears the colorful dresses of the elegant Gysèle Truchon, host of the Canal 4 show L'été à Québec.
Aside from everyone who died in the last season (RIP Gaétan 2), most of the characters from C'est comme ça que je t'aime return in the final season, including neighbor Anita (Catherine De Sève) and the Priest Mario (Patrick Drolet). ), Jeannine and Raymond (Chantal Fontaine and René Richard Cyr) and the policeman Roland (Alexis Lefebvre), still a couple in Micheline-les-narines.
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Sidekicks François Létourneau (Gaétan) and Patrice Robitaille (Serge)
That's How I Love You is full of charming details like Martin's Fun Dip trading in his sewing machine for ballet jazz, vintage cars (a Pinto, a Chevette!), Cocoa Puffs, the cheese fondue from La Tyrolienne restaurant and the brie, the highlight of the Chic in Sainte-Foy, summer 1976. “Brie, you could think you were in Versailles! » exclaims a guest at the “wine and cheese” organized by Huguette.
However, we must not forget the key scene of the series, now co-directed by Patrice Robitaille and François Létourneau: the scene in which the gigolo neighbor with a large penis Claude (Sébastien Rajotte) discovers the four corpses found in the swimming pool of the Delisles swim.
We've seen this moment since the first episode released four years ago. Who are the victims of this massacre? Is it Serge, Micheline, Huguette and Gaétan? If so, who killed her?
The answer comes in the eighth episode (there are only eight instead of the usual ten), as the Sainte Foy gang takes one last midnight swim and certainly another crème de menthe.
For those who devour all the episodes on Friday, please keep it secret. Do it for Coco, for Puff, and for all the innocent women who responded to the 1870 order and fell in battle, thank you.