Titled Just an illusionthe next film by the successful filmmakers will follow the daily life of a young teenager in a dysfunctional family.
One of the most prominent pairs of directors of Fançais cinema is preparing for his return. The ninth feature film by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, entitled Just an illusionwill be released in theaters on October 14, 2026. He will bring together Camille Cottin, Louis Garrel and Pierre Lottin, recently seen in A fanfare.
According to Allociné, which reports the information, the shooting has already started. The Ciné media unveils a first synopsis of the film, whose intrigue is located in 1985: “Vincent, almost 13 years old, lives in the Parisian suburbs in a family of the middle class, between a distant big brother and parents in permanent conflict. While he is no longer an child and not yet an adult, the film follows his reflections and his doubts about identity, friendship, family, love and love.”
Just an illusion will succeed A difficult yearprevious feature film of the duo released in 2023. This film carried by Pio Marmaï, Jonathan Cohen and Noémie Merlant had brought together just under 900,000 spectators in theaters. If this figure would make many filmmakers dream, it is below the boxes to which Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano were used to it.
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After the successes of Happy days et So close In 2006 and 2008, erected since cult films, the pair took up a new magnitude with the release ofUntouchablesimmense triumph of 2011.
Worn by François Cluzet and Omar Sy, this social comedy attracted nearly 20 million spectators just in France and exported to the international, generating $ 10 million in revenue in the United States.
If Toledano and Nakache have never reiterated the feat, they have since chained successes, always served by prestigious castings. Samba (with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Tahar Rahim, 2014), The meaning of the party (Jean-Pierre Bacri and Gilles Lellouche, 2017) and Extraordinary (Vincent Cassel and Reda Kateb, 2019).
