Tonight on TV: Forget Medellin and Taxi 5, Frank Gastambide takes you

Inspired by a press article about a man who admitted that the children of undocumented immigrants were French, director Xavier de Chaudens began writing Damien Wants to Change the World.

In order to maintain his script, he especially goes to meet associations, social workers, lawyers and also collects the words of mothers who are ordered to leave the territory of France.

And so Xavier de Chaudens concludes the story of Damien and his sister Melanie, raised by struggling parents until their mother’s sudden disappearance. Having become a pike in elementary school, Damien finally joins the past to save one of his young students and his mother from imminent expulsion from the area.

The director also writes the role of Damien with a very specific actor in mind: Frank Gastambide. It’s really seductive with the mixture of strength and vulnerability that the actor unleashes.

Known to the general public for his schoolboy comedies (Les Kaira, Pattaya, Taxi 5, Medellin), the latter receives a proposal that allows him to reveal another aspect of his game: more mature and, above all, more disturbing.

Like movies like Samba, Patients or Le Nom des Gens, Damien wants to change the world It achieves a perfect balance between comedy and emotion, between humor and depth, carrying high values ​​of solidarity.

Damien wants to change the world By Xavier de Chaudens with Franck Gastambide, Melissa Sosen, Gringe…

Tonight on C8 at 9.15pm.