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24 Exposures
by Serge Boucher, trans.
Shelley Tepperman
On a Sunday in August
1997, the Dubé family
gathers in Nicole and Richard's backyard to celebrate
Richard's 40th birthday. Facing a whole afternoon
and evening together, how will they make the
time pass? Ordinary people talk, laugh, play
and love each other; they love each other all
wrong, but they love each other all the same.
As the day unfolds, Richard unwraps his birthday
gifts, lottery tickets are doled out, the “specials”
are surveyed in the weekly circular, and family
scars and skeletons come to light; what emerges
is a portrait of what could be any (or every)
family, filled with the usual things left unspoken,
the tacitly understood, and the not understood
at all.
“Through the cracks and
the silences, and the characters' wounds, Boucher
lays bare a portion of the collective soul.” —Luc
Boulanger, Voir
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