“It’s an honor for me”

Two Marseille icons meet: the rapper Sch signs the title song of the most anticipated animated film of the Cannes Film Festival, a biopic on Marcel Pagnol, and will make the trip to the Croisette for the occasion.

“Marcel and Mr. Pagnol”, Sylvain Chomet’s film (“Les Triplettes de Belleville”), must be presented in a special session during the 78th Cannes Festival, which is held from May 13 to 24.

The film retraces the life of the Marseille author and director, fifty years after his death. As president of the jury in 1955, Pagnol also presented the first golden palm in the history of the festival, which pays tribute to him this year.

The French -language trailer is visible by clicking on this link.

“It is an honor for me, Marseille having spent most of my childhood and my youth in Aubagne, that to be able to be part of the history of Mr. Pagnol“Said the figure of French rap, in a press release.

“Fan of his cinematographic adaptations, his dramaturgy and his deep sense of writing, the news has reached me as an opportunity to pay him a tribute to the height, I hope, of what he would have expected with a title that mixes two eras and brings together several generations“He added.

After being president of the jury in 1965, Marcel Pagnol was also a member of the jury in 1966.

In an interview with the Konbini site, Sch explained that he had watched many Marcel Pagnol films with his mother. According to him, these are films “who educate“And that he finds well written. Sch, who participated in the Marseille tube” organized band “, is one of the main figures of rap from Marseille, with Jul or Naps, and one of the big names in French rap.

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