Martin Matte Vitrerie Joyal arrives Friday on Amazon Prime Video
martin matte vitrerie joyal arrives Friday on Amazon Prime Video as a six-episode comedy of autofiction, and Martin Matte plays his own father, André Joyal. The series runs 35 minutes an episode and pulls its story from the summer and fall of 1995, a stretch that places the family business just weeks before the Quebec sovereignty referendum.
André Joyal in 1995
Six episodes give Matte enough room to make the family factory feel lived-in rather than reduced to a sketch. Vitrerie Joyal centers on André Joyal, who drives a BMW and runs the family doors-and-windows business, while the story tracks Philippe Joyal, 25, supervising the factory in Laval, and Vincent Joyal, 27, after accounting studies at university.
35-minute chapters also leave space for the show’s sharper friction: André does not understand the rise of computers in 1995, treats burnout as something cured by a good kick in the ass, reacts badly when a Black salesman arrives in his office, and speaks about gay people with derogatory language. Matte has said, “J’écris pas pour régler des problèmes ou par amertume,” which frames the series less as a grievance piece than as a return to a difficult household dynamic.
Vitrerie Joyal cast
Pier-Luc Funk plays Philippe Joyal, Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais plays Vincent Joyal, Marilyse Bourke plays Diane Vaillancourt, Florence Longpré plays Josée Côté, and François Chénier plays Gaston Veilleux, the company’s best salesman. Patrick Emmanuel Abellard appears as the Black salesman, which places the casting around one of the story’s most charged moments instead of letting the series flatten that office scene into period décor.
The setup puts Vitrerie Joyal in the same autofiction lane as other recent work that mines private life for public comedy, but the business setting keeps it grounded in a workplace where succession, status, and adaptation all sit in the same room. Friday’s full release means viewers get the entire arc at once, which is the right way to watch a series built around a family system that is already under pressure before the referendum even arrives.
