Six years after the release of his novel “Their Children After Them”, which won the Prix Goncourt, Spinalien Nicolas Mathieu saw his book adapted for the cinema. With previews this Thursday evening in its hometown.
A preview awaited by the Vosges this Thursday evening in Epinal: the adaptation of the Goncourt prize “Their children after them” to the cinema. A feature film of more than two hours with images of the blast furnaces of northern Lorraine but also from Pierre Pierced Lake. An adaptation which combines portrait of an era, nostalgia and reflection on parent-child relationships in Lorraine during the steel crisis. Spinalien Nicolas Mathieu, the Goncourt prize winner, attended this screening at the Cinés Palace in Epinal.
A success
“Great satisfaction“, confides the one who confesses a strand of Thracian at the time of the release of the adaptation of his work. According to the author, it meets the objective which was to “to make a great popular, generous film, with speed, exhilaration, growing youth, a sort of fresco and epic. With people who, in general, do not appear in epics, precisely“. And for fans of happy endings, it’s a failure: “it’s a film that ends, I think, in us, breaking our hearts and that’s what we ask of it“, he smiles.
