Unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival, the Larrieu brothers’ latest film, Le Roman de Jim, is released in theaters on August 14, 2024.
After three years of absence (their musical Tralala in 2021), Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu are back on the big screen with a new movie, Le Roman de Jimin theaters on August 14, 2024. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Pierric Baillypublished by POL in 2021.
The story spans nearly 25 years, from the early 2000s to the present. In the pastures of the Peripheral Francein Saint-Claude, the sub-prefecture of Jura, Aymeric (Karim Leklou), an unpretentious little guy, meets Florence, pregnant up to her eyes. With great tenderness, the Larrieu capture the voluptuousness of this meeting between young alternative people and the very particular, perhaps excessive, audacity of the character of Laetitia Dosch.
Quickly in the household, Aymeric naturally becomes the stepfather of Jim, Florence’s newborn. And they lived happily and had many children? Alas no, the child’s biological father, Christophe (Bertrand Belin), upsets the family balance following a personal tragedy. This shaky family will, from then on, try to operate at the same speed, with great help. “shared authorship“.
If this trouble they Jim – we of course hear it on the radio, sung by Souchon – nevertheless addresses the sensitive subject of paternitythe film strangely left us unmoved by this sentimental crowd around the child, as if everything sounded a little wrong. Although they are linked by blood for some, by love for all, the characters call each other – unnaturally – by their first name and all express themselves in a monotonous tone, without great outbursts of joy or sadness.
From this follows a great feeling of strangenessbecause if the film is not stingy in sentiments, they are expressed here in a way too detached to touch the heart. Fortunately, the last quarter of the film, which marks the return of Jim, now grown up, into Aymeric’s life, succeeds in moving.
The teaser of Le Roman de Jim of the Larrieu brothers:
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