We’re smiling because the photo will be released this Wednesday at the cinema. This comedy on a family holiday France 98 combines the scent of nostalgia with Jacques Gamblin, Pascal Arbilo, Pablo Paul (Patients) and Agnes Hurstel (Young and Goller).
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Thierry spends his days classifying family photos, making sure the best is behind him. When Claire, his wife, announces to him that she is leaving him, Thierry is devastated, offering him again “Greece 98”, their best family vacation. Officially he wants to spend one last week with his children before announcing their separation. Unofficially, he hopes his wife will return! Thierry will set the family on fire in an attempt to revive his couple …
For the very first time …
We smile because the photo is the first feature film by François Uzan, a screenwriter who has worked extensively on the series Lupine and Family Business for Netflix, or even Promise TF1.
The genesis of the project starts in 2010 … The director went on vacation with his family and after his return he made an appointment with a friend, Anthony Lancrete (one of the producers of the film). He recalls:
“I started telling him about my vacation and 5 minutes later he said to me, “Stop talking about it, write a movie!” “Obviously, my family vacation was much less outrageous and spicy than the Hamelin family vacation. We smiled at the photo, but I kept the color, the lightness, the family dynamics …“
“Then I was really thirty years old and I realized, no matter how old you were with your parents, you are still 10 years old! It’s a kind of time travel and I used it to make history, but I did not want to limit myself to my views at the age of thirty because basically I’m a bit like all the characters. “
The unexpected success of the Alpe d’Huez Comedy Festival
Pure festive comedy, with lightness but also nostalgia, even with a touch of melancholy, we smile as the photo is one of the unexpected successes of the last edition of the Alpe d’Huez Comedy Festival. During the presentation, the film left a special prize for the jury, chaired by Michelle LaRoche.
In the film press set, the film director and screenwriter says a little more than his intentions: “The theme of a couple or family relationship can stand the test of time, touching and obsessing. To me this is a film about the ghosts of the past. So, so to speak, we do not necessarily start with comedy, but because they are good ghosts that we live with, that accompany us, and that one day we have to give up, it ultimately creates a nostalgic, even melancholy comedy. … Attention: To me these are not negative or derogatory terms. One fine day I read that “it was melancholy to cry about beautiful things”, so you can wipe away a few tears, but above all I like to make people laugh, so with this basic material I wanted to write a real comedy.. “
Pablo Pauli and Agnes Hurstel We smile at the photo.
There are new talents ahead
The film enjoys good cast, a fusion of Jacques Gemblin (Le Nom des gens, L’Incroyable histoire du Facteur Cheval) and Pascal Arbilot (currently starring in the hilarious Netflix series and soon Irréductible by Jérôme Commandeur). Actors Pablo Pauli (seen in the film “Patients”, Agnes Hurstel (comedian and headliner of the series Jeune et golri) and comedian Ludovic are the youngest, this is the first feature film pure holiday comedy.
We smile as the photo appears this Wednesday, May 11, 2022.
Source: allocine
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