"CONTACT" Requiem for a Word

Shot in Montreal over a four-month period, from May to September 2020, Jules' Impossible Summer charts the evolving relationship between the filmmaker and her 19-year-old son through 15 redundant conversations about the importance-or the impossibility, depending on the point of view-of following the health restrictions imposed during the pandemic.

Marguerite Paquin lives in a seniors' home where 18 nuns from her religious congregation have succumbed to COVID-19. The film takes us from the grandeur of the landscapes of Côte-Nord, Quebec, where Marguerite has worked for 47 years, into the room where she sits confined today, finding a sort of liberation through prayer and unshakeable solidarity with her sisters who are suffering.

Investigation sur la transformation du langage issue de la COVID-19. Les interrelations sociales qui sont complètement bouleversées aujourd'hui laissent place à une réinterprétation de certains termes qui portent tout à coup une valeur mortifère. Le film est une messe funèbre en l'honneur du mot «contact ».