Magalie Lépine Blondeau – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

Monia Chokri and Magalie Lepine Blondeau on The Nature of Love (TIFF 2023) – Liz Braun interviews

September 18, 2023September 20, 2023 Liz Braun Magalie Lépine Blondeau, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Simple comme Sylvain, the nature of love, TIFF 2023

Writer/director Monia Chokri and her lead actress Magalie Lepine Blondeau, speak about wanting The Nature of Love to help debunk all the fantasies about love and romance women are fed from childhood. There are a half-dozen sex scenes in The Nature of Love, “And each has to be different. I wanted to make it like an action scene,” said Chokri. “It has to be something to push the narrative. if there’s only the intention of sex, it’s not interesting to me.”

Festivals Reviews

THE NATURE OF LOVE (TIFF 2023) – Review by Nadine Whitney

September 18, 2023September 18, 2023 Nadine Whitney André Turpin, Francis-William Rhéaume, Magalie Lépine Blondeau, Monia Chokri, Simple comme Sylvain, the nature of love, TIFF 2023

Monia Chokri’s The Nature of Love is a bitterly droll romantic comedy that pokes fun at the genre itself. Chokri asks you to sit with her characters who can’t move out of their own ways to make anything work in their lives. Ultimately, Chokri does have a fondness for the imperfect people she has written. Maybe none of it is really their fault – just a case of circumstance and opportunity. What is love anyway?