This screening will be the London premiere of the film and will be followed by a Q&A with director Lyne Charlebois.

Brother Marie-Victorin (author of La Flore laurentienne and founder of the Montreal Botanical Gardens) was 46 when he met 23-year-old Marcelle Gauvreau. Both have been close to death and, as botanists in pre-war Catholic Quebec, they share the same love of God and Nature. He becomes her teacher; later, she becomes his assistant. Their friendship evolves. Marie-Victorin offers Marcelle different readings on sexuality that she hastens to comment on from her own intimate experiences. In an epistolary exchange that will last until the death of Marie-Victorin, they explore human desires and "biology without a veil". This great chaste love, the love of Quebec's flora, pushes them to question their own relationship with love and Nature. The film is produced by Roger Frappier (The Decline of the American Empire).

Grand Prix, 41st Abitibi–Témiscamingue International Film Festival

Best Actress, Mylène Mackay, Festival du film francophone, Angoulême

Nominated, Canadian Cinema Editors Award

"Disconcerting in its form, but delicate, sensual, witty and joyful, Tell Me Why These Things Are So Beautiful is a gem that is both a period film and a poem."

Le Soleil

We will be adding Quebec Old Fashioned cocktails to our menu on the night to mark the film's premiere.