The screenplay for Nobody’s Violence is a remnant from the final year of my illness, the most difficult one before receiving the gift of a kidney in August 2023. By concealing myself behind the character of Mira, I am crafting the testimony of the end of a chapter. In an indirect way, the film speaks about living alongside death, but also about hope and the possibility of influencing one’s life choices. It is a journey that gradually reveals what binds us to life: love and freedom, within a relationship to the world that is becoming ever more difficult and complex.

Like most of my films, this is a cinema of jolts and subtle shifts, one that favors delicate tremors over grand revolutions. This new work would probably belong to a genre I like to call supernaturalism. By this, I mean a cinema that engages with reality while refusing to imitate it, and that openly embraces the implausible or traces of the supernatural. We do not seek to resolve every question or every storyline. We move away from rigid, functional narrative structures and instead drift toward a kind of suspension or poetry, however harsh and cruel it may be. Mira is an entity shaped by our desires and disturbances. She is an exterminating angel living in the shadows of moral and philosophical boundaries. She loses herself on the roads, evolving parallel to the established system.

As for the rest, I do not always know what is happening on screen or who these characters truly are. This way of moving forward in the dark, of losing myself before the object itself, is something deeply precious to me.

Larissa Corriveau, Philippe Rebbot, Xavier Bergeron, Gabrielle Lazure, Pierrette Robitaille, Eve Pressault, Amélie Dallaire, Christian Lapointe

DIRECTING: Denis Côté

SCREENPLA: Denis Côté

PRODUCTION: Guillaume Vasseur et Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette (Oiseau pas de s)

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Vincent Biron

SOUND DESIGN: Stephen de Oliveira, Terence Chotard, Stéphane Bergeron

ORIGINAL SCORE: Christopher White

EDITING: Terence Chotard