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The production was entrusted to Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma. An adaptation of the novel by Nicolas Mathieu, winner of the Goncourt Prize in 2018, which casts a romantic and poetic look on an austere universe. Revelation Prize for Paul Kircher at the Venice Film Festival, the 22-year-old young actor, already spotted in “The Animal Kingdom”, plays Anthony, a fiery kid from the Fensch Valley, whose wings are cut off by life. Synopsis: “August 92. A lost valley in the East, blast furnaces that no longer burn. Fourteen-year-old Anthony is extremely bored. One hot afternoon at the lake, he meets Stéphanie. The love at first sight is such that that same evening, he secretly borrows his father's motorbike to go to a party where he hopes to find her. When the next morning he realizes that the motorcycle has disappeared, his life is turned upside down. »
