Lovely Day

Lovely Day (2025)

Mille secrets, mille dangers

Alain and Virginie are getting married today, but Alain is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The impending reunion of his divorced parents has plunged him into deep anxiety, only made worse by the shady schemes of his cousin and best man Edouard, who seems determined to get him involved. The groom now has only one ambition: to survive the happiest day of his life.

Date of release
2025-09-19
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 59m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Philippe Falardeau

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Montreal

Lovely Day is a 2025 Canadian comedy-drama film, written and directed by Philippe Falardeau. Adapted from the novel Mille secrets mille dangers by Alain Farah, the film stars Neil Elias as Alain, a Lebanese Canadian man struggling to navigate the emotional and interpersonal challenges that threaten to derail the day of his wedding to Virginie.

Production

The novel's optioning for film was first announced in 2022.

Filming took place in summer and fall 2024 in Montreal. In an interview with Variety following the film's premiere, Falardeau noted that he had strongly considered cancelling the film when the September 2024 Israeli attacks against Lebanon began the day before he was set to shoot the wedding scenes, but was encouraged by the Lebanese actors in the cast to continue on the grounds that it was important to show a story of Lebanese people whose lives…

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