Country: France
Year: 2022
Duration: 122'
Lucas is 17 when his teenage world is suddenly shattered. He views his life as a wild animal in need of taming. Between a brother settled in Paris and a mother with whom he now lives alone, Lucas will have to fight to rediscover hope and love.
Biography
film director
Christophe Honoré
(Carhaix, France, 1970) moved to Paris in 1995 and began collaborating on various magazines, including “Cahiers du cinéma.” In 1996 he published his novel Tout contre Léo, adapted for television in 2002. In 2002, he debuted in feature films with 17 Times Cecile Cassard. After making Ma mère, based on a novel by Bataille, he wrote and directed In Paris (at the Cannes Film Festival in the Quinzaine des réalisateurs) and Love Songs, in competition in Cannes and the winner of a César for Best Soundtrack. In 2008 The Beautiful Person was screened in competition at the Festival of San Sebastian and was nominated for two Césars. He then directed Making Plans for Lena (2009) and Man at Bath (2010), both screened at several film festival such as Locarno and Torino, and the most recent Plaire, aimer et courir vite (2018) and Chambre 212 (2019), both presented in Cannes, the first in competition, the second in the Certain regard. He alternates his activity as a film director with that of author and theater director.
FILMOGRAFIA
Nous deux (cm, 2001), 17 fois Cécile Cassard (2002), Tout contre Léo (tv, 2002), Ma mère (id., 2004), Dans Paris (2006), Les chansons d’amour (2007), Hôtel Kuntz (cm, 2007), La belle personne (2008), Angelo, tyran de Padoue (tv, 2009), Non ma fille, tu n’iras pas danser (2009), L’homme au bain (2010), Les bien-aimés (2011), Métamorphoses (2014), Quella peste di Sophie (2016), Plaire, aimer et courir vite (2018), Chambre 212 (L’hotel degli amori smarriti, 2019), Guermantes (2021), Le lycéen (2022).
Declaration
film director
“My films have often dealt with disgrace, irreversibility, breaking points, but never would I have thought that one day I would make a film about the particular state in which I had been in the months following my father’s passing. Since “Plaire, aimer et courir vite” (Sorry Angel), I have tried to approach each new project with scrupulous sincerity. Essentially, I think that people make films because deep down, they miss someone, or because they feel, either brutally or vaguely, a void that they try to fill with a film. Perhaps I was missing my father more keenly then”.
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Christophe Honoré. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Rémy Chevrin. FILM EDITING: Chantal Hymans. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Jérémy Streliski. COSTUME DESIGN: Pascaline Chavanne. SOUND: Guillaume Le Braz. CAST: Paul Kircher. Vincent Lacoste, Juliette Binoche, Erwan Kepoa Falé, Adrien Casse, Pascal Cervo, Christophe Honoré, Anne Kessler, Elliot Jenicot. PRODUCERS: Philippe Martin, David Thion.PRODUCTION: Les Films Pelléas. CO-PRODUCTION: France 2 Cinéma, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma.
CONTACT:
Pyramide Films - Alberto Alvarez Aguilera alberto@pyramidefilms.com
