"Herodotus tells us that in Babylon, doctors were not summoned; the sick person was carried to the public square, where people who had suffered from the same illness would approach and advise the patient on the remedies that had helped them heal. […] I Wanna Sleep With You begins the day my companion pushes me away, shutting me out of his home and his life for good. From this rejection begins a journey across the city that will take me into the homes of four other couples close to me, whose relationships and lives can help me understand what went wrong in mine."

What better way to understand one's own suffering than to compare it with that of others? Mattia Colombo invites us on this journey of public exposure of interiorities that are close to his own, disseminating in the process a few keys to understanding his story. By exploring the crises experienced by couples of friends, Colombo emerges from his great isolation to enter directly into shared humanity. But he also invites us to a fascinating exploration of the complexity of the love relationship, shattering the frames of reference of the heteronormative couple and sexuality, which in any case do not rhyme with happiness. By going so far as to question his parents' relationship, Colombo delivers a moving scene in which he confronts his mother's prejudices, as one of the missing keys to his chronic dissatisfaction with love. Between modesty and shamelessness, everyone will recognize snippets of their own love stories, where the intensity of the feeling in no way guarantees the outcome of the story, and where everything is built in small steps, in the fragility and wounds of the ego, in search of a home where one can finally lay down its arms in front of the other.

Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
Tënk's Artistic Director

 

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