خلاصه داستان : Le Rire با آمیختن واقع‌گرایی و غریبگی نگران‌کننده، کاوشی انسانی درباره سندرم بازمانده، روند سوگواری، فاصله زمان، قدرت عشق و لذت زنده بودن ارائه می‌دهد.

As a civil war shakes the Quebec province of Canada, Valerie is the sole survivor of a mass execution where her boyfriend is killed. Years later, she’s in a close relationship with her new partner, Gabriel. At the Long Term Care Center where she works as an orderly, she befriends Jeanne, an erudite and funny woman, dealing with an important physical handicap. Mixing realism and worrying strangeness, The Laugh presents a humane exploration of the survivor’s syndrome, the grieving process, the distance of time, the power of love, and the joy of being alive.

خلاصه داستان : داستان فیلم از زندگی و شغل نویسنده‌ی کانادایی "نلی آرکان" الهام گرفته است. او که زندگی پر فراز و نشیب و پرخطری را تجربه میکرد در سال 2009 جسدش در حالی که حلق آویز شده بود در آپارتمانش پیدا شد...

A high-class prostitute by choice, Nelly Arcan’s colorful life is recreated in a multi-layered and stylish mix of make-believe and memoir, revealing Nelly’s alter egos: the neurotic writer, the vulnerable lover, the call girl and the star. Nelly shocked the literary world with her elegant writing and the lurid details of sex work in her autobiographical first novel, Whore, which became a critically acclaimed bestseller. Despite unprecedented success, Nelly’s remarkable life ended in tragedy.