Revealing women, showing men Dermatology professor Marie-Claire is embarking on a new project linking skin cells and sexuality, when unexpected events disrupt her professional, family and intimate life.
Acting
Poupart's controlled unraveling—every micro-expression earned.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like actual humans negotiating power and need.
Cinematography
Skin as landscape: pores, flush, goosebumps as narrative.
Director
Renée Beaulieu
Brigitte Poupart
Marie-Claire
Louise Portal
Margot
Vincent Leclerc
Adam
Pierre-Yves Cardinal
Mathéo
Charlotte Aubin
Sofia Bukofski
Nathalie Cavezzali
Mathilde
Romane Denis
Katou
Pierre Kwenders
Émile
Normand D'Amour
Alexandre
Paul Ahmarani
Louis
Hubert Proulx
Veterinarian
Sophie Clément
Juliette
Joseph Delorey
Virgile
Guillaume Gauthier
Ludovic
Éliane Gagnon
Student
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 2010s Quebec cinema exploring middle-aged female sexuality without male-gaze redemption—Beaulieu cited Chantal Akerman as influence.
The dermatology consultation scenes used actual patients who consented to being filmed; Poupart trained with real clinicians for three months.
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