Sophie (Magalie Lépine Blondeau), a forty-year-old FrenchCanadian philosophy professor, worries that her comfortable marriage to fellow intellectual Xavier (Francis-William Rhéaume) has grown stale. Her restlessness finds a subject to fixate upon when she meets Sylvain (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), the handsome building contractor tasked with repairing the couple’s lakeside country retreat. Opposites attract and a tumultuous affair begins, but Sophia has a hard time reconciling the reality of their fundamental differences.

Director Monia Chokri mines a familiar setup and finds gold, delivering a hugely entertaining crowd-pleaser of a comedy that manages to smuggle pointed commentary on infidelity and class differences in amongst the laughs.

Notes by David O’Mahony

Screening as part of the IFI French Film Festival, November 15 – 26.