Night Travelers: Charlotte Gainsburg and Emanuel Beart Women of the 80s

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Paris, 1980. Elizabeth has just left her husband and has to take care of the daily lives of her two teenagers, Matthias and Judith. He finds a job on a night radio show where he meets Talula, an idle young girl he takes under his wing. Talula discovers the warmth of home and the possibility of Matthias first love, while Elizabeth invents her own way, perhaps for the first time. Everyone loves each other, they fight … Did their life start again?

A film that evokes the same feelings as listening to a favorite song

Following this sense of Amanda or this summer, director and screenwriter Michael Hersh will sign a new atmospheric feature film that will immerse us in the special atmosphere of the 80s. The history of the film begins at the beginning of this decade and develops over 7 years. A narrative borrowed from saga codes, while maintaining the tone of a family chronicle, against the backdrop of sentimental and presidential elections. “True, this coincidence (election) is a bit of a coincidence. We obviously have this in mind when we watch the movie. Surprisingly, the 80s back in this election. This is definitely particularly responsive. “

As in his previous films; The great success of Les Passagers de la nuit is due to the melancholy or more euphoric feeling that arises from it and evokes the same sensations as the song one wants to hear and hear again. “When we listen to a song or melody, or hold it and touch it, we love it. Or we are a little sideways, we do not accept the flow. Everything happens very instinctively and very sensually on the way to the song“, Explains Michael Hers with our microphone.

“Admittedly, I always had a fantasy that we could make movies like a song. It forces the intellect to work, obviously, but also to make it something more sensory, and you to be able to wrap it up as in a song, to feel good in it as in a song.. “

As illustrated in the movie trailer and in particular in the role of Emmanuel Beart, the world of Les Passagers de la nuit is particularly evolving in the world of night radio. The world that even gave the film its name. This title is intended not as an echo of the previous feature film of the same name, but as a kind of tribute to the names of these shows that were very popular in the 80s.

The radio conveyed a strong imagination

“There is still radio today. But it is true, there was this side of simultaneity where we suddenly heard a voice. We drove from one radio station to another, to an FM station, and came across such a story, these voices, sharing experiences, intimate relationships … Then we imagined other people at the same time. , Heard the same thing elsewhere. He created a kind of constellation like bridges, and it was a ring, another relationship, another way of settling in space-time, and another communion.. “

Review of the epoch, against the background of the present

And continue:Now, that’s really no longer the case with the ability to listen when you want a program, a podcast. It was like watching a movie on TV on a Saturday night. We could talk about it on the playground on Monday. There was something about it that united. Then I did not take this film with a nostalgic perspective, but it is a fact. Conveyed a strong imagination. It went through the sound, but I guess there were lots of pictures. “

If there is melancholy in the film, there is no talk of nostalgia. “I wanted to avoid that. Nostalgia is something that is decisively turned to the past. For me, this is more about revisiting the epoch, but against the background of the present, and continuing to see what applies to the present rather than the idea of ​​a lost paradise.. “

Les Passagers de la nuit, with Charlotte Gainsburg and Emmanuel Beart, held this Wednesday.