There was a brief delay for the start of the production (originally they were circling a 2023 start), but finally French-Canadian filmmaker Philippe Falardeau did get back into the saddle this past September for his latest which translates to Thousand Secrets, Thousand Dangers. The French-language feature, the Montreal-centric Mille secrets mille dangers has one week left to go in production – so the’ll be aiming to position this as a film fest release perhaps Locarno. Toplining the book to film adaptation we find Neil Elias, Hassan Mahbouba and Rose-Marie Perreault and a noteworthy behind the line part of the team is André Turpin. Producers are Micro_scope’s Kim McCraw and Luc Déry. The film will likely explore themes of adolescence, identity, and relationships. Falardeau broke out big with 2011’s Monsieur Lazhar and then explored English language films in The Good Lie (2014), Chuck (2016) and his last feature — My Salinger Year (2020) opened up the Berlinale.
Co-written by Falardeau and book author Alain Farah, this sees Alain getting married to Virginie. The day will be grand, the day will be perfect and Alain’s Lebanese aunts will talk about this wedding for years to come. But Alain has a stomach ache. A dull anger is rumbling inside him. He fears the reunion of his parents whose stormy divorce troubled his childhood. He fears the return in force of his anxiety attacks, he fears his addiction to medication into which he is about to fall again. His cousin Édouard, a real brother, promised the bride and groom to parade them in a convertible Mustang. Except that on the day of the wedding, Édouard’s mind is elsewhere. He hatches a nebulous plan and absolutely wants to talk to Alain about it. In doing so, Édouard summons the ghosts of the past and plunges Alain into an anxiety bordering on delirium. Alain has only one ambition: to survive the most beautiful day of his life.