Quebec poet and novelist Jean-Christophe Réhel made his first entry on the small screen with dramatic comedy seems to be goinga mini-series produced by URBANIA to be aired on Télé-Québec in the winter of 2023.
Antoine Olivier Pilon, Catherine St-Laurent, Joakim Robillard and Noémie Leduc-Vaudry will play the main characters, friends with cystic fibrosis who found out that a member of their quartet was in danger of dying before the end of the summer.
The series is about the dreams we are trying to achieve and the friends who are there to help us when we are brokendetails Télé-Québec.
Focus on humor
I haven’t toured this disease yet, I still have things to say about it, said Jean-Christophe Réhel in an interview with Radio-Canada. His first novel, What we breathe in Tatouinespecifically addresses the topic of cystic fibrosis, a pathology affecting the respiratory and digestive systems, and from which the 33-year-old author suffers.
Sa tattoo, the story is darker, despite the narrator’s little jokes and overflowing imagination. Sa seems to be goingmuch more humor and light, despite some very rock’n roll sceneshe explains.
What we breathe in Tatouine was also developed for a film adaptation to be done by Voyelles Films and directed by Ian Lagarde (All You Can Eat Buddha).
The bright side of the disease
The four friends of seems to be going do not feel sorry for themselves, despite their fragile condition. Most of the time, the disease is approached in a dramatic way or to make the characters shine with healthbelieves Jean-Christophe Réhel, who sprinkles his scenario with a good dose of satire.
” Personally, I have found that there is nothing better than seeing a patient happy. “
I often give this example: eating strawberries when you are sick is not the same as when you are healthy. When you’re sick, you take advantage, you take the time to taste that strawberry. A healthy person would push ten strawberries in a row without actually tasting them.
First fiction production by media group URBANIA, seems to be going will be directed by Sarah Pellerin (The knights), an actor with incredibly sensitive eyesensures Jean-Christophe Réhel.
The author is even more pleased with his collaboration with his production team and his broadcaster, that really went into the story and into my many misconceptions.
The rush to survive
One of the main goals that Jean-Christophe Réhel set himself in his project was to deconstruct the distressing and fatalistic image of chronic diseases brought on by popular culture.
I especially like the people who finish watching it show have a sense of urgency to survive. I want them to tell themselves that life is beautiful, that life is worth living, despite everything going on in the worldhe argued.
The filming of seems to be going will begin shortly, with the entire cast being shown at a later date, the production said.
Source: Radio-Canada
