"I found it interesting to tell the story at the height of a child", introduced to our microphone François Damiens, who also explains that he wanted to work with Yann Samuel, director of the film.
We are at the dawn of the First World War.
Lucas, Lucien, Luigi and Ludwig, four inseparable orphans, form the mischievous band of Lulus, always ready to face Octave's rival band or escape the surveillance of Abbé Turpin.
When the orphanage is urgently evacuated, the four friends are forgotten behind the enemy front line.
Now left to their own devices in the midst of the Great War, they decide to go to Switzerland.
It is then that they are joined by Luce, a young girl separated from her family.
The time is no longer really for games of innocence,
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Adapted from a successful comic strip,
La Guerre des Lulus
is a faithful transcription of the original work, which director Yann Samuell has applied to bring to the smallest detail on the screen.
"There is a scene that I find magnificent, it's when Ahmed Sylla (
Moussa's character, editor's note
) gets the children up one by one on the train that is leaving", notes for his part Alex Lutz, who interprets Professor Leutellier.
This film tells the journey of children under construction in a destructive period of war.
In the cast we also find Isabelle Carré, Loup Pinard, Léonard Fauquet, Mathys Gros and Didier Bourdon.
La Guerre des Lulus
is in theaters since January 18
In video,
A romantic comedy
, with Alex Lutz and Golshifteh Farahani