The documentary of the week | Marilou wants us to talk about money

After business, couples and then sex, Marilou continues these days her conversation around money, undoubtedly the most taboo subject there is. The fourth part of its series In other words will be posted this Tuesday, in the Véro.tv section of the ICI Tou.tv Extra.

“Curiously, one would have thought that sexuality would be more taboo, but in the end, it is here, when talking about money, that we had the most difficulty finding speakers,” confirms at the end of the by director Charles-P. Martel, who has worked with Marilou since the beginning of the project. “In general in Quebec, culturally, we are not very open. When you have money, you don’t necessarily want to talk about it,” he notes.

The question of this misplaced modesty could have been the subject of interesting reflections, but it is unfortunately not addressed, at least not in the first two episodes viewed here. It must be said that there is no shortage of topics, and the series of six 20-minute episodes promises to cast a fairly wide net, first tackling the question of money within the couple (joint account or each for themselves). ?), then to money in the family (will, yes, but when and above all how?).

We will obviously address the question of financial education in a third episode, then social status, and finally overconsumption. The very last episode will ask the fundamental question: what is a healthy relationship with money? We can’t wait to get an answer.

It is to Marilou that we owe the initiative ofIn other words. And once again, it shows: as in the previous parts, we see the host speaking to the camera, wondering out loud, then meeting her guests, sometimes in her living room, in her kitchen or on her balcony , in a now proven formula. At the start of the episode, Marilou sets the table, then summarizes the lessons learned at the end of the show, which gives an intimate, but also very educational aspect to the finished result. And that’s obviously intentional.

From the very first episode, the communicator, entrepreneur and singer confides: “I have always approached the question in a very Cartesian way […]so why does money shake such vulnerable parts of me? » In the same way, she underlines from the outset this great paradox: “We are made to believe that money brings happiness, and at the same time, we are drowning in material conflicts…”

Yet another question, and not the least, that we could add here, and which is obvious from the first minutes: how on earth is it that money, although so essential to our lives, is a subject so little taught, and therefore so poorly controlled?

In all honesty

For each subject covered, Marilou discusses informally with her guests, both personalities (or at least those who have agreed to testify), but also various experts on the subject. Let us salute, on the testimonial side, the transparency of the actor Lou-Pascal Tremblay, who speaks openly about his joint account, or of the singer, composer and producer Judi Richards, who will reveal in complete frankness how she and her husband Yvon Deschamps intend to share their assets with their children.

In the rest of the series, we will also hear the ex-lawyer now actress Catherine Souffront, the comedian Mathieu Dufour and the host Pénélope McQuade, by her own admission “illiterate” financially speaking.

As for the experts, be careful: no Pierre-Yves McSween on the horizon, we instead went looking for sociologists, psychologists, notaries and other less well-known, but no less relevant, names. We think of the sociologist Hélène Belleau (to whom we owe a book on love and money), to the notary Marie-Lou Philie-Noël or the psychology professor Frankie Bernèche, among others. “It was important for us to seek out different visions, angles and points of view,” says the director.

We could certainly criticize them for only chatting among the well-off, and it is a fact: there will be no evidence of great poverty here. On the other hand, several speakers started from nothing, nuance the director, and in doing so relate the story of their success, whether we think of Judi Richards, again, or of Frantz Saintellemy, entrepreneur and philanthropist, originally from Haiti .

Please note that the series will obviously not answer all your financial questions. And that’s not his ambition either. On the other hand, it risks putting your finger on your shortcomings. “It’s certain that in 20 minutes, we can’t go too long or wide,” concludes Charles-P. Martel, but maybe this will ring a bell. [….] And tell you where to go to improve your knowledge…”

All episodes are available from Tuesday in the Véro.tv section of the ICI Tou.tv Extra