This Sunday, December 15, 2024, France 2 is offering prime time The Whirlwind of Life a film byOlivier Trainer. This feature film is broadcast for the first time unencrypted. In the casting, we find Lou de Laage, Raphaël Personnaz, Isabelle Carré, Grégory Gadebois, Esther Garrel, Denis Podalydès of the Comédie-Française or even He left Schneider.
Released in cinemas on December 21, 2022, The Whirlwind of Life had gathered 200,631 spectators in cinemas. So, almost exactly two years after its release, will the film arouse the curiosity of viewers this Sunday, December 15, 2024 for its first free-to-air broadcast?
The Whirlwind of Life: what is the film with Lou de Laagence and Raphaël Personnaz about?
In this story, Julia, played by Lou de Laagence, seen notably in The Fools' Ball is the daughter of a piano maker. She is a very gifted pianist herself. When she was 17, on November 10, 1989, she was in Amsterdam to complete her musical training. With her comrades, she learns of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Although she has always been very good, she decides to run away with her friends to go to Berlin. Chance will then change his destiny.
When she is at the end of her life, Julia wonders about the role that chance played during her existence. On several occasions, he changed his destiny: If Julia had not dropped her book that day, would she have crossed paths with Paul (Raphaël Personnaz) ? Or would his life have taken a completely different direction? She then wonders if the other versions of herself who never existed would be proud of what she has become.
This meeting which inspired Olivier Treiner for The Tourbillon of Life
Moreover, The Whirlwind of Life by Olivier Treiner is not inspired by a true story. On the other hand, the director was strongly inspired by the emotions linked to meeting his wife. Regarding chance, the theme of the film, he says: “He plays a very important place in my life”.
Olivier Treiner says: “I met Camille, my wife when I was a student, in a café where we both liked to come and work. I was sitting at my favorite table, which also happened to be his. I offered to share it with her, she sat down, we spent the day talking, and we never left each other's side. A few weeks later, I mentioned this meeting to my brother”.
The director develops: “Then I asked him about his love life, and he told me that he had also met a young girl, in a completely different place and circumstances, and that they were going out together. After a few minutes of discussion, we realized that they were sisters. Around the same time, our two lovers had a similar discussion and realized that they had by chance met two brothers..
The Whirlwind of Life can be found this Sunday, December 15, 2024 in prime time on France 2.
