The Hendricks family in cinema: Does Lawrence Arne’s film with Danny Boone remind you of the famous American comedy? It’s normal!

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When his son Henry threatens to move in with his father, Justin is forced to take him on a trip to the Atlantic coast with his new companion, Ludo, and his son Joseph. On the Holiday Agenda: Unite Your Blended Family at Any Cost! But very quickly the adventure goes off the rails and Justin becomes disillusioned. However, out of this chaos, a musical group is gradually born, “hendrix”, in which everyone explains their madness. Will this new partnership allow the atypical family to finally find harmony?

A really bad road trip?

Lawrence Arne Director: First? He and not. If she participated in the production of the comedy “Girls of Today”, the Hendricks family is her baptism of fire behind the camera. With her companion, Danny Boon, who directed several of her films (La Ch’tite famille, 8 rue de l’Humanité) and to whom she returns the favor today. And his couple, to some extent, inspired this feature film. Let’s talk about family restoration.

And this is how he chose the concept of dysfunctionality: “Which means that as adults we break down the barriers of social convention, we break free”he said in the press kit. “I myself experienced the first family failure, I did not want to fail the second one!”

“That’s Justin’s starting point: he feels guilty about separating from his son’s father, so he’ll do anything to make it right and help him find the desire to be a family again in a different way, even if it means forcing him down that path. On a childhood path that he’s totally nostalgic for.”

I myself experienced the first family failure, I did not want to fail the second one!

And of course, when we talk about road trips and dysfunctional families, it’s hard not to think of Little Miss Sunshine’s yellow van. Which, unsurprisingly and just like Rain Man or Madman, was one of Lawrence Arne’s references in the Hendricks family and in several aspects.

from the image (“I wanted that warm and comforting light”) of one teenager that the filmmaker wanted to be close to by Paul Dano in Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’s approach to the subject: “I love the family dynamics that these films support and the craziness of a certain psychological profile. It’s funny and inventive and always so fair and exciting. And then I love that Anglo-Saxon culture.”

Unlike the feature film directors he draws inspiration from, he stars alongside Danny Boone (with a very fair, often restrained score). And everything he had to do behind the scenes helped his character: “Managing a thousand things like Justin has definitely helped me handle the mental load better.”

In this way, the Hendricks family takes pride of place with the music (and for the unexpected covers used for the pan flute) with an energy unlike anything the cast has shown so far. And this road trip, which comes at the right time for a vacation, is all the more eventful, without forgetting to pack emotions into the trunk.