Quand l'amour se creuse un trou (When Love Digs a Hole)

An undisciplined approach to scholastic endeavours leaves young Miron (Robert Naylor) locked-down in homeschool.

His reserved yet open-minded parents understand that teenagers like to experiment, but are still adamant that their boy should definitively finish high school.

Therefore, their family rents a home in the countryside where it is believed there will be less distractions, and Miron sits down with mom to soberly cast procrastination aside.

Things go well.

The plans seems to be working.

But little do mom and dad know that their son is cut from the purest romantic egalitarian inclusivity, and soon finds himself enamoured of their rebellious widowed neighbour next door.

Florence (France Castel/Emilie Carbonneau) is a daring freespirit who elastically makes ends meet, and while Miron's parents (Patrice Robitaille as David and Julie LeBreton as Thérèse) sympathize with such an approach, at the end of the day they're better acquainted with orderly inflexible routines.

They aren't ogres or anything, they're actually much cooler than many parental units depicted in romantic comedies, yet they still authoritarianly attempt to shut love the fuck down, which thoroughly annoys their son, who effortlessly finds it wherever he goes.

As a side effect, David's increasing strictness revitalizes his wife's latent passions, and their marriage is consequently saved.

Yet their son is much more resourceful than they think, and an idea is generated through pseudo-televisual leisure studies, which just might represent, the apotheosis of truest free love.

Excavated from the heart of despair.

It's been awhile since I've seen such a remarkable Québecois comedy, which outperforms its American counterparts with a scant fraction of their operating budgets.

No doubt because Excentris went under.

A well-written story vivaciously brought to life, cognizant of the ways in which utopian dreams must confront disengaging realities, yet illustrative of the ingenuity which enables them to variably thrive amongst different generations, Quand l'amour se creuse un trou (When Love Digs a Hole) beautifully celebrates love and living, from multiple philosophical perspectives argumentatively voiced and respected.

It ends with perfect timing.

It's important to strive for the utopian but you still have to live meanwhile.

The trick is to do so without becoming cynical, a mindset which dismally breeds decay, if it takes over one's unconscious.

Don't get me wrong, I think finishing high school (and university or college) is very important, especially when you're young and don't have to work all the time, and it does open up doors and lets you expand your mind with cool challenges that the real world rarely offers.

Quand l'amour se creuse un trou makes a stunning case for disorderly reckonings however, undoubtably mischievized after categorial rules were far too dismissively applied.  

Digs in deep.