Borderline

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109 minutes – Drama
Language: French
Release date: February 8, 2008
Production company: Max Films
Canadian distributor: TVA Films

Borderline was adapted from two quasi-autobiographical novels by Marie-Sissi Labrèche: Borderline and La Brèche (The Breach). The movie crosscuts between three different periods in the main character’s life. Kiki is, or can be, a child, or a 20-year-old party girl careening toward a sex and booze meltdown, or a 30-year-old budding writer trying to exorcise her destructive past. She is the daughter of an institutionalized mother who was raised by her grandmother in a down-and-out neighbourhood of Montreal. School, when we see her as a young girl, provides the only safe haven she knows. Ad when she grows up and leaves the safety of her school, Kiki uses sex and alcohol to escape from the daily grind. Finally, at 30 years of age, Kiki finds the love that’s hardest to accept: love of herself.

Also see: Inside Québec March 2008

Borderline, movie poster

Crew:

Producer:

Roger Frappier
Luc Vandal

Director:

Lyne Charlebois

Screenwriter:

Marie-Sissi Labrèche
Lyne Charlebois

Cinematographer:

Steve Asselin

Editor:

Yvann Thibaudeau

Composer:

Benoit Jutras

Production Designer:

Frédéric Page

Costume Designer:

Marianne Carter

Cast: Roles:

Isabelle Blais
Angèle Coutu
Sylvie Drapeau
Laurence Carbonneau
Pierre-Luc Brillant
Marie-Chantel Perron
Antoine Bertrand
Jean-Hugues Anglade
Valérie Blais
Hubert Proulx
Dominique Pétin
Sandrine Bisson
Hortense Bamas
Renée Cossette
Maxime Le Flaguais
Marc Beaupré

Kiki
Mémé
Kiki’s Mother
Kiki – 10 years old
Mikael Robin
Caroline
Eric
Tcheky
Isabelle
Antoine
Tina Brochu
Second DASA Girl
Céline, a student
Thérèse, a teacher
Sébastien Vandal
Kiki’s Father