It took seven years of reflection before Little Nicolas returned to the big screen.
The game was worth the candle.
Because it takes delicacy to adapt the adventures of the tasty schoolboy character created in 1955 by the tandem Sempé and Goscinny to the screen.
The more you read it, the more this work resembles a crystal cathedral, a light, slender, poetic, funny, touching, majestic children's literature… but so fragile.
With his cheerful kid's face emerging from school, his muddy short panties, his red tie in the wind, his tuft of devil-combed hair and his schoolbag in his hand, Nicolas conjures up memories of an eternal childhood as much as nostalgia for a happy France, that of the Trente Glorieuses.
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Cinema: the new face of Petit Nicolas
It is to Julien Rappeneau, the son of the director of the
Married in Year II
, the
Hussar on the roof
or the unforgettable comedy
Tout feu tout flame
(with Adjani and Montand), that the heavy task of waking up the myth, sixty-six
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