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(Comments of the director concerning the shooting of his film and his meeting with Jeanne Moreau): "There had been talk of a French co-producer, the film was still produced here in Quebec, and they said to me: "Who would you like to make this film with to play the role of Juliette's grandmother", and well I said with Jeanne Moreau, saying to myself that it was not possible. They told me: "There is no problem, we will join her, we will ask her", and they call me after 2-3 days and tell me: "She is waiting for you at the hotel in Paris for lunch". Well, I said to myself, it can't be, Jeanne is like Elizabeth Taylor, she is one of the great movie stars. And the year before, she had been honored at the Oscars for her whole career, and then I was watching her on television, and I said to myself: "I'm not going to meet Jeanne Moreau, it can't be, she played for François Truffaut and all that. I arrive in Paris (in France), and they celebrate the 100 years of the French cinema, and the effigy is Jeanne Moreau, huge posters everywhere in the city, and there I say to myself: "It is incredible". And in the restaurant located in the 17th, where I have my meeting with her, she is with her back to the window, I have Jeanne in front of me, and behind her, it is a huge poster of her smoking a cigarette in the movie 'Jules et Jim' (1962). Then she talks to me, she had read the script, then it was very simple. And she says to me: "Excuse me, we have to interrupt our meeting because there is Almodóvar waiting for me at the bar. Come, I'll introduce you to him". Afterwards, she added in passing: "Hey, say hello to my friend"...it was Claude Lelouch!...It was incredible. But apart from the anecdote and the fan that I was, she is a woman who has an exceptional job. She is someone who has contributed enormously to cinema. And when I would say to her in the morning: "Ok, I'm going to do such and such a shot Jeanne" (because you had to be on first-name terms with her, you couldn't be polite to her. She had this charm), then she would come to me and she would say, pointing to a place, "You should put your camera there, if you want to get this thing there". So I said, "Look, we're going to make a deal. I'm going to do my shot the way I think it should be done, and then I'm going to do the shot that you want. And 100 percent of the time she was right, she was right about everything. It was a very beautiful moment in my life that made me progress in my work". (Remarks by director Yves Desgagnés on "Les enfants de la télé" on September 28, 2016).

The two young actors, Charlotte Aubin and Thomas Lalonde, are surprisingly comfortable with their bodies, far from the clichés of teens in crisis. They fully assume the love scenes, even in front of their family and friends. However, it is clear from the hearing that the two teenagers, then aged 14 and 16, were neophyths in the matter. "They did not know how to kiss, it was an initiation for them," says Yves Desgagnés. The latter himself gave a lesson to kiss the two actors, taking an assistant as teacher. He marked Charlotte's face with small "x's", the precise points where Thomas had to put his lips. In short, a surgical precision that served both young actors well. "They became adults at the same time as they became actors," says Yves Desgagnés. In one of the scenes, Romeo and Juliet are naked standing on the edge of a lake. "It was the most beautiful scene to do, it was hot, the water was good, there was no discomfort," recalls Thomas. "At first we hid with our hands, but then we were made to water," adds Charlotte. "We even had to put on patches and a thong," says Thomas. "There is so much to think, there were cones in the water to know where to place, so we do not have time to think about looking at each other," says the young actor.