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Expat Cinema: Simple comme Sylvain (+English subtitles)

Wednesday 31st January 2024 (one-off screening)

Movie lover but trouble understanding Dutch subtitles? Join Lumen’s EXPAT CINEMA screenings. Every Wednesday we screen the best foreign language movies with English subtitles. Our café is the perfect place to hook up for a good coffee or special beer before and after the film.

A sharp-witted, satirical, and delightfully refreshing romantic comedy about an intellectual French-Canadian woman in a sexless marriage who has her life turned upside down when she has an affair with a ‘simple’ carpenter.

Mogelijk schadelijk tot 12 jaar Seks Discriminatie Grof taalgebruik


Monia Chokri   Canada, Frankrijk   2023
110 minuten
French gesproken, English ondertiteld

 Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has been married to Xavier Laurentian for ten years. When the family country house needs renovations, carpenter Sylvain enters her life. It’s love at first sight, and from that moment, her life takes a twist. But can these two opposites with different backgrounds be together? She is an intellectual woman from an affluent family, and he comes from a working-class background. As Sophia completely surrenders to love, she suddenly begins to doubt all her beliefs and ambitions.

 Simple comme Sylvain is the third feature film by Quebec-born director and actress Monia Chokri. She has starred in films by Denys Arcand and Xavier Dolan (such as Heartbeats and Laurence Anyways) and can also be seen in her own new film. Simple comme Sylvain premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.