Borderline (2008 film)

Borderline
Directed by	Lyne Charlebois
Produced by	Roger Frappier Luc Vandal
Written by	Lyne Charlebois Marie-Sissi Labrèche
Starring	Isabelle Blais Jean-Hugues Anglade Angèle Coutu Sylvie Drapeau Laurence Carbonneau Pierre-Luc Brillant Marie-Chantal Perron Antoine Bertrand Hubert Proulx
Music by	Benoît Jutras
Cinematography	Steve Asselin
Edited by	Yvann Thibaudeau
Production company	Max Films Productions
Distributed by	TVA Films
Release dates	February 8, 2008 (2008-02-08) (Canada)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

Borderline is a 2008 Canadian film directed by Lyne Charlebois and co-written with Marie-Sissi Labrèche, based on her novels Borderline and La Brèche. It has won ten awards and one nomination.

Synopsis

Kiki (Isabelle Blais) has borderline personality disorder. She is a young student in literature at a university in Montreal who is lovesick. She takes refuge in alcohol and sex with anonymous strangers she picks up at a bar she frequents to forget her past; an unknown father, an institutionalized mother (Sylvie Drapeau), raised by her grandmother (Angèle Coutu), who is on the verge of death. But as she turns thirty, she meets her most painful love: herself.

Awards

Genie Award – Adapted Screenplay; Prix Jutra – Director, Best Actress (Blais), Best Supporting Actress (Coutu), Editing

Cast

• Isabelle Blais as Kiki (20 & 30 years old)
• Jean-Hugues Anglade as Tcheky
• Angèle Coutu as Mémé
• Sylvie Drapeau as Mère de Kiki / Kiki's Mother
• Laurence Carbonneau as Kiki (10 years old)
• Pierre-Luc Brillant as Mikael Robin
• Marie-Chantal Perron as Caroline
• Antoine Bertrand as Eric
• Hubert Proulx as Antoine

External links

• Borderline at IMDb