“CE2”, the latest film by Jacques Doillon, was presented in August 2021 at the Angoulême Festival. Since then, its release has been frozen, then postponed until August 25, 2021.
Filmed between August and September 2020, the film features Claire, an 8-year-old girl, harassed by Kevin, a kid who wants to kiss her on the mouth. While investigating Kevin, Claire's mother learns that, in his nursery, he rubbed himself "naked against the buttocks of the other children". “He is not lucky enough to have been born where he should be,” says a childcare worker about the little boy, whose mother, with tattoos and pink hair, drinks, and whose father, a soldier, lives in a mobile home. and “puts potatoes” on his son to the point that he sometimes takes refuge in a cupboard. Little by little, Claire’s mother takes a liking to Kevin and her daughter becomes closer to him.