The Nature of Love

Sophie (Magalie Lépine Blondeau), a forty-year-old French Canadian 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.