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Me and my brothers: Billy Elliot in lyric mode

2022-01-04T12:42:58.695Z


CRITICAL - Presented in the “Un certain regard” section at the last Cannes Film Festival, Yohan Manca's first film, bright and optimistic, features a neighborhood teenager gifted for lyrical singing.


A little girl on the beach goes to fill her bucket in the sea while a group of rowdy teens play soccer on the sand.

The sun is strong.

The sound of the surf, seagulls and beach attendants punctuate this beginning of a great Mediterranean vacation.

Sitting on a low wall, the young Nour, 14, observes the scene.

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The youngest of four boys living in a working-class neighborhood by the sea, Nour (admirably interpreted by Maël Rouin Berrandou) is preparing to spend the summer with a brush in hand.

Planted on his low wall, the teenager seems to be resigned to the idea of ​​repainting the decrepit corridors of his college in white, under the leadership of a town hall employee who runs the TIG with an iron fist (work of interest general) of the establishment.

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One day, while he was brushing the windows of an alley in his school, from the top of his ladder, the boy heard the lyrical chants of a song escaping from a class he thought was deserted. he listens tirelessly.

This tune ...

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Source: lefigaro

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