A Brother's Love

A Brother's Love
Theatrical release poster
FrenchLa femme de mon frère
Directed byMonia Chokri
Written byMonia Chokri
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJosée Deshaies
Edited by
  • Monia Chokri
  • Justine Gauthier
Music byOlivier Alary
Production
company
Metafilms
Distributed byLes Films Séville
Release dates
  • 15 May 2019 (2019-05-15) (Cannes)
  • 7 June 2019 (2019-06-07) (Canada)
Running time
117 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench
Box office$1.7 million[1]

A Brother's Love (French: La femme de mon frère, lit. 'My Brother's Wife') is a 2019 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Monia Chokri.[2] It had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.[3] It was released theatrically in Canada on 7 June 2019 by Les Films Séville.[4]

The film stars Anne-Élisabeth Bossé as Sophia, an immature university graduate student who is forced to reassess her life when her brother Karim (Patrick Hivon), with whom she has always had a very close and codependent relationship, falls in love with her gynecologist Éloise (Evelyne Brochu).[5]

  1. ^ "A Brother's Love (2019)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
  2. ^ "The Screenings Guide 2019". Cannes Film Festival. 9 May 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  3. ^ "Cannes festival 2019: full list of films". The Guardian. 6 May 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Le film de Monia Chokri La femme de mon frère est présenté à Cannes" [Monia Chokri's film A Brother's Love premieres at Cannes] (in French). Ici Radio-Canada. 15 May 2019.
  5. ^ Nesselson, Lisa (15 May 2019). "'A Brother's Love': Cannes Review". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 15 May 2019.