LA PETITE
Type: comedy drama ✦✦✦
Direction: Guillaume Nicloux. With Fabrice Luchini, Mara Taquin, Maud Wyler, Veerle Baetens, Lucas Van Deneynde
«Optimistic melodrama» according to the director of The religious And The kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, The petite it alternates tragedy (Luchini’s son and his partner lose their lives in a plane crash) and comedy (which allows us to stage an unexpected mourning process).
The discovery that somewhere in Belgium there is the surrogate mother of a granddaughter she didn’t know she hadpushes the French showman to set off in search of him.
From the novel by Fanny Chesnel, a reflection on the consequences of gestation for others (prohibited in France, tolerated in Belgium) and the meeting between two human beings destined to produce sparks. And therefore perfectly assorted.
Fabrice Luchini and Mara Taquin in the film “La petite” (photo by Thibault Grabherr).
LEGEND
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