Adapted from the novel of the same name by Pierre Baille, Le Roman de Jim is a moving family chronicle directed by the Larrieux brothers and starring a leading cast including Karim Leclew, Letitia Doche, Sarah Giraud, Bertrand Bellin and the young Éol. person
This week’s Cannes-spotted feature film has an average press rating of 4.1 out of 5 (on AlloCiné, 37 for media), making it the top-rated film of the week, ahead of City of Darkness and Alien: Romulus .
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Aymeric meets Florence, a former work colleague, for an evening at Saint-Claude in Haute-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When Jimmy is born, Aymeric is there. They spend many years together until Kristoff, Jimmy’s natural father, arrives… This could be the beginning of the melodrama as well as the beginning of the fatherhood odyssey.
What does the press think?
According to the latest news from Alsace:
“Here are the Pyrenean brothers, perhaps for the first time relaxed, sensitive, sentimental, melancholic.” by Natalie Chiflett – 5/5
According to Le Parisien:
Adapted from the novel by Pierrick Baillie, Le Roman de Jim is a broad and deep melodrama about fatherhood, where all the characters are intensely present. by Catherine Ball – 5/5
According to Les Inrockuptibles:
“America manages to create a line of flight, to take a tangent, to invent a new plan of existence. Larrier’s perpetual motion, which here finds one of its most beautiful executions.” By Jackie Goldberg – 5/5
According to Cahiers du Cinéma:
“The success of Laurier’s latest feature film is paradoxically measured in terms of the pillaging and erasure of the anti-hero, who immediately becomes the narrator through a passive and dirty gesture.” by Thierry Méranger – 4/5
Why Le Roman de Jim is the big emotional moment of summer
According to Closer:
“Pure emotion, a movie moment that we grow up from.” By Justin Boivin – 4/5
According to Le Journal du Dimanche:
“A moving melodrama with tears, caring, but not naive, imbued with gentle sadness and tenderness. Light and serious at the same time, a little like life, it also seduces with its characters amazing characters played by amazing actors.” by Baptiste Theon – 4/5
According to Les Echos:
“The Larrieux brothers have created a beautiful summer movie with this adaptation of Pierre Baillie’s novel. The wonderful Karim Lecloux has done this fantasy about the surprises and mishaps of fatherhood.” By Olivier de Bruyn – 4/5
According to the Prime Minister:
“Le Roman de Jim is a kind of new Western: a film that focuses everything on its hero, who thinks he can find his way in the West, or the world (or the Jurassic Rocks), as long as he maintains his moral integrity, in two words: very strong.” by Sylvester Picard – 4/5
Source: Allocine
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