What if you spent an evening with Gilles Lelouch, Sandrine Kiberlain and the adorable kids?

Five years before the smash hit I’ll Always See Your Face, a powerful feature film about restorative justice, Jean Hery made a harrowing film about the hurdles of adoption.

Hitting theaters in 2018, Pupille is, as its title suggests, a coming-of-age drama about childbirth. On his birthday, Theo is adopted. Child welfare services and adoption services quickly began to find a new family for the newborn. The lucky lady’s name is Alice, 41 years old, and she has been struggling to become a single mother for ten years.

Embodying this woman on screen with a painful life journey, Gene Herr Picked up the two-time César Award-winning actress for her performances in Wild Reeds and The Dream Life of Angels: Élodie Bouchez. For a director with a thirty-year career, it was obvious, because he considers Wait for Bushes as the “ideal double” of oneself.

A bubble of love and tenderness

and acting as a family assistant, Gene Herr turned to one of the most fashionable male figures of that moment in French cinema: Gilles Lelouch. “A slightly philandering man who embodied rough masculinity in the cinema, it was a guarantee of surprise for me and the audience, a strong image. explained the film director.

For the director of L’Amour ouf, this character was also a way to end the “macho” or “hetero-boof” image that we sometimes have a habit of attaching to him. And the least we can say is that this tender and loving role suits her perfectly, as does Sandrine Kiberlen, who plays the role of a caring special education teacher.

The process of adoption, and more precisely the period when a child goes into family service, is rarely discussed in cinema. Gene Herr. He confided: “I understood that the task of these social workers was to find parents for a child, not to find a child for poor parents: it was a revelation.”

And this bubble of love in this movie touched the hearts of the audience. Moreover, Internet users of the AlloCiné gave it a very good rating of 4.2 out of 5 and 4.3 out of 5 for the press. With its adorable cast and adorable babies, the movie student It moves, disturbs and amazes.

Tonight on France 2 at 21:10.