[Trailer] “Their children after them” by Nicolas Mathieu, the Goncourt prize seen by the Boukherma brothers

Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma were able, in three feature films, to establish the codes of a new French genre cinema. After Willy 1er (2016), Teddy (2021) et The Year of the Shark (2022), the duo changes register, adapting the 2018 Prix Goncourt by Nicolas Mathieu, Their children after them.

The latter tells the story of Anthony (played here by Paul Kircher), a teenager who is bored in his Moselle countryside, in full deindustrialization, in the 1990s. One summer, he meets Steph, whose he falls in love. It was during an evening where he borrowed his father’s motorcycle to go find his beloved that Anthony’s life changed: the next morning, the motorcycle disappeared. This social drama, divided into four periods, explores the lives of these adolescents and the working-class conditions from which their parents already came.

Paul Kircher awarded in Venice

Paul Kircher (The Animal Kingdom), who won the revelation prize for this role at the last Venice Film Festival, is surrounded in the cast by Gilles Lellouche and Ludivine Sagnier, who respectively play an angry father and an complicit mother. The cast is completed by Angelina Woreth (My life my mouth) et Sayyid El Alami (Oussekine)

Their Children after themby Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, with Paul Kircher, Gilles Lellouche, Ludivine Sagnier, Angelina Woreth and Sayyid El Alami. In theaters December 4.