For this film adaptation of Nicolas Mathieu's novel (Goncourt 2018), the Boukherma brothers chose a geographically tight plot, in a valley in the East. “We got rid of the passages that could leave the city to stay inside Hayange, to give a feeling of confinement, since it is a question of class reproduction. We rarely went on vacation when we were little, we heard our friends tell us where they had gone, but we never saw these places“, says Ludovic Boukherma.
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Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma grew up in Lot-et-Garonne, “in a popular France, the same as that of Anthony”. “The fact that the film takes place in the 90s is a way of laying the foundations of what we are experiencing, of the division we know today, but we remain in character conflicts”explains Ludovic Boukherma.
How to film the boredom these teenagers face, in the torpor of the summer of the 1990s? “We wanted the image to have a warm and scorching side“, explain the two directors, who also wanted “lots of silence”. “We are on the side of young people in this story. Even if there is a story of social determinism, it is still young people who try to tear themselves away from this place by all means. The motorcycle is one of them, with love, sex.”
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