Borderline

Hi everyone,

Today, I would like to introduce a new Canadian film: Borderline, which was directed by Lyne Charlebois in 2008. This film, adapted from the two books « Borderline » and « La Brèche », written by Marie-Sissi Labrèche (what a f****** name), is the story of Kiki, played by Isabelle Blais, a thirty-year-old woman, that suffers from borderline troubles. 

As you might know, borderline people suffer from a personality disorder that is associated with bipolar troubles. It means that people can be very sad, very depressed one minute, and the next minute, they could do anything, they are over-excited, and overly motivated about everything. So, « Borderline » explores the everyday life of this woman, Kiki, who has some troubles dealing with this disease, making her go deeper in a nonsensical relationship with a married man, having extreme behavior with many people, drinking too much, having too much sex with strangers, etc. Most of all, she tries to deal with a heavy past: her depressed mother that spent a part of her life in a psychiatric hospital, her father that she never knew, her aging grandmother that will soon no longer be there … With a lot of humor and emotion, Lyne Charlebois succeeds in following this lost young woman, creating an appealing character, who tries so hard to love herself. The movie won a lot of awards in France and Canada, and is, so far, the only feature film of Lyne Charlebois, who is mostly known as an advertising and videoclip director. Does anyone know this movie? What did you think about it?