Author, poet and actor Simon Boulerice is back together geolocate love, a new series broadcast since May 5 on ICI TOU.TV EXTRA. The autofiction work explores strange romantic encounters during the apps.
Throughout the series, we accompany Simon Boulerice, who plays his own role, through his frustrations, his emotions and his anxiety, as he seeks love and physical closeness in the depths of his cell phone and the city.
The author talks about a topic he knows well: before he can find love, he often goes to dating apps for a long time to deceive the loneliness. I found it time-consuming, I found it dizzyhe said.
” I think we can all identify with this daily disarray of saying: “I feel incomplete, I want to find the person who will fulfill me, and maybe that person does not exist”. “
Between fact and fiction
Simon Boulerice’s digital quest is told in geolocate lovea novel by poetry that he published in 2016 and which inspired the series.
The actor said he rediscovered it while making a theatrical version of the text for a festival in Quebec. I loved rediscovering that word, which is no longer mine.he said.
I had an interesting perspective. I told myself that maybe I could work from this text, in retrospect I have now, and make something more concrete from it.added Simon Boulerice, who also signed on to the new show Pet, to be shown in the fall on the airwaves of Noovo.
The author remembers: geolocate lovewhich progresses between comedy, drama and sometimes tragedy, is not a documentary series, but an autofiction. He said he was pleased with the blurring of the boundaries between fact and fiction.
People [m’écrivent pour me dire qu’ils] wants to hug me. Excellent. But I’m not completely Simon. It is a changed Simon, and above all it is a Simon that I am no longerhe assured.
Therefore, the series mixed the archives of Simon Boulerice’s real life – especially his excerpts on television sets – with the acting of actors and actresses, such as Jocelyn Lebeau, Josée Deschênes and Luc Senay.
It anchors the series in a form of greater realism, and after that, in a form of magical realism.he explains.
To unfold oneself
Simon Boulerice made no secret of this: to produce an autofiction that discusses romantic relationships and sexuality in a face -to -face way, you need to be willing to show a part of your intimacy.
I think I am someone who constantly travels between great modesty and great modesty.he said.
The author explains that he was inspired by the French novelist Violette Leduc, who spoke of indifference as a thing. sincere, weak, and sometimes even elegant.
I am a spiritual granddaughter of Violette Leduc, who said it all: the ugly as well as the beautiful, but above all the uglyhe concludes.
The series was directed by Nicolas Legendre-Duplessis and produced by Caroline Gaudette for Version 10.
This text was written from from an interview by René Homier-Royhost the show Culture Club. Comments can be edited for clarity and brevity.
Source: Radio-Canada
