Synopsis
Three teenagers are shaken up by their first loves in the turmoil of their youth. At a time when others are conforming, they stand their ground and assert their right to love and be free.
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Cast
- Théodore PellerinGuillaume
- Noée AbitaCharlotte
- Édouard Tremblay-GrenierFélix
- Pier-Luc FunkMaxime
- Émilie BierreBéatrice
- Maxime DumontierThéo
- Paul AhmaraniPerrier
- Jules Roy SicotteNicolas
- Antoine Marchand-GagnonAlexis
- Vassili SchneiderMikaël
Recommendations
- 100
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The drama is an intricately constructed and intensely felt work that transcends the easy “coming-of-age” genre label that is so tempting to slap onto it. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
Even though the movie barely provides any backstory or other details, the characters’ emotions are always immediately accessible in this vivid depiction of the all-consuming nature of nascent amour, as well as the pain, heartbreak and confusion that come with trying to channel all these pure emotions into something as structured as your daily life. - 90
Variety
Lesage’s filmmaking, with its unhurried editing and eerily echoing music cues, is in expert sympathy with his hovering, out-of-time protagonists. - 90
Screen Daily
Often very funny, especially in classroom scenes filled with unconventional teachers and unruly pupils, the film also shows real feeling for the tangled workings of the human heart and the way individuals are at their loneliest in a crowd of people. - 83
The Film Stage
Both Pellerin and Abita are tremendous, each fiercely charismatic in a way that doesn’t compromise the vulnerability of their characters. - 80
The New York Times
The film may be maddening as a character study, and it could damage an ionizer with its air of self-importance, but its experiments in form and tone are highly original. - 80
Los Angeles Times
Genèse concludes as a sober reminder that the young always feel intensely, but that the years between the crush that shines and the ardor that confounds are short ones, indeed. - 75
Slant Magazine
Lesage pulls focus onto the aftershocks of trauma rather than the traumatic events themselves.
