These are the 2 most difficult things in the cinema: However, this director causes the challenge every time!

After the last Jaguar, which was released in the theaters in February 2024, French director Gilles de Master returned to the moon Le Panda, who is currently in cinema.

In this film, 12 -year -old Tiana, in the province of Sichuan, in China, is sent to her grandmother because of bad results. Far from the city, in the mysterious China mountains, he became friends with the Panda, named after him. This is the beginning of incredible adventures that will change his life and his family forever.

Under the leadership of Alexandra Lam, Chinese actress Ie Liu and her children in the city, Noah and Nina Liu Martan, a feature film is the first film shot on a real panda for 25 years! The shooting was very overseen: only the young Noah had the authority to approach and touch the panda.

Gill De Maistre Explains: “For this movie, we had absolutely special authorization. It is truly miraculous to be able to do it. Along with the real panda, he has not seen it for 25 years because he is an endangered animal. Less than 3,000 left and they belong to China. So if you want to turn it on, you should ask the Chinese authorities. They received it, but it took a five -year negotiation.

I think it was a story that convinced them. This is a beautiful, stumbling story. They were also sensitive to a little boy character and probably my work on my previous movies. Several elements checked the right boxes and they finally agreed to apply for a panda. “

Return to wild animals and children

From Mia and the White Lion, director chains of films that make children and wild animals: wolves and lions, The last jaguarAnd today the moon Le Panda. The two of the three were the most difficult of the film, and the third was to get into the water.

Why does Gilles de Maistre continue? And how do you make a movie with wild animals and children? We asked him a question.

“For this movie, we had two pandas, one kid and an adult. But we didn’t let us approach them.

This is very different from the usual one: in general, we have very young animals, we create links, people get stuck and vice versa. There we only had a panda on the first day of shooting. He needed all the strength and genius, the young hero of the film who went spontaneously in the panda. They created an immediate link.

You have to stay with Zen

Filming with animals is not really restrictions. Let us come to us. We enter their world, we never force them, there is no closet. The film will be adapted to their pace, their character, their habits.

This is a very quiet filming. You have to stay with the zen, even if it doesn’t go well. If the animal is tired, it will fall asleep and very badly: the next day you will go back. This energy makes it possible to get magical images, like a movie. Nothing is falsified. This is real and it gives the public a unique thing. This is also a movie bet today: to offer viewers things that they have never seen. ”

Another great difficulty is to run children with wild animals. Although attractive, they are still wild and the filming implies that the parents of the young actor take risks. Gill De Maistre also tells us that before choosing children, he chooses first … their parents.

“We choose parents for the first time before arriving in a child.

For Moon le panda, this is a little special, as Noah is the son of a well-known film actor in China, Ie Lius, who performs his father on the screen. It is used to make films, and Panda is a pretty peaceful animal, even if it is still very strong. “

Throughout The moon pandaGilles de Maistre continues its devotion to the family cinema. You have to see the film currently in the cinema.