Tonight on TV: A heartfelt family comedy that will do you good

Beginning her film career as an editor, Sophie Raine notably worked on Remi Besançon’s The First Day of the Rest of Your Life. A César winner for best editing, he was then backed by producer Isabel Grelat to take up directing.

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After a good experience in his short film Janine or my parents are no exceptionShe decides to go with cigarettes and hot chocolate. For this first film, Sophie Raine draws on an autobiographical source of inspiration, in this case her family role model, but also incorporates a cause close to her heart after watching a documentary on the subject, Gilles de Tourette.

Cigarettes and hot chocolate It thus follows a family of young children whose father Dennis struggles alone to raise his two daughters, one of whom has Tourette’s syndrome, and his two jobs. When a social investigator scrutinizes the family’s daily life and forces Dennis to take a parenting course, the kids have to come to terms.

A warm, original and colorful comedy (Buffalo ’66, Juno, Little Miss Sunshine, as well as the work of the American photographer Stephen Shore, nourished the aesthetics of the film). Cigarettes and hot chocolate It is carried by a wonderful cast, Camille Cotin and Gustav Kervern. Acclaimed by critics, it was nominated for a César for best first work.

Cigarettes and hot chocolate By Sophie Raine with Gustav Kervern, Camille Cotin, Heloise Dugas…

Tonight on Chérie 25 at 9.05pm.