"My name is Lucas.
I am a high school student and my life has become a wild beast.
Lucas (Paul Kircher), 17, sees his life shattered when his father dies suddenly.
With the approval of his mother (Juliette Binoche), his older brother (Vincent Lacoste) takes him to live for a week at his place in Paris.
The opportunity for the high school student to experience real adolescent emancipation and to learn to hope and love again.
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This drama, sprinkled with a dreamlike dimension, is animated by tensions that create a feeling of collapse warded off by the desire to put on a good show.
“I believe that deep down, we always embark on a film because we miss someone, because we suddenly or diffusely feel a void that we are trying to fill with a film.
I was certainly in a moment when I missed my father more strongly, ”confides Christophe Honoré in a press release.
Interpretation Prize at the San Sebastián Festival
The high school student
is perhaps his most personal film.
The alter ego character of Lucas, is inspired by the adolescence of the director who also lost his father at the age of 15.
“Paul (Kircher) was chosen after a very long casting, started while I was still writing the screenplay.
We saw close to 300 young men.
I didn't have a physique in mind, I just knew that the role was difficult due to its magnitude.
(…) Paul is a great actor.
I do not know if the cinema will be up to what he can offer to the cinema.
He is an actor with an overwhelming sensitivity, ”he says, admiringly.
The young Paul Kircher was indeed awarded the interpretation prize at the 2022 San Sebastián Festival for his fair and sensitive interpretation.
Erwan Kepoa Falé,
Xavier Giannoli and Pascal Cervo are also in the cast of "Lycéen".
Release scheduled for November 30.
