A screening that looks like a family reunion.
Wednesday January 17, at the Alpe d'Huez Festival (Isère), Chloé Jouannet, 26, presented “Allez ma fille”, her first short film.
A few meters from her, in the Great Hall of the Palace, her parents and her mother-in-law, the actors Alexandra Lamy, Thomas Jouannet and Armelle Deutsch, were seated next to her half-sisters Mado and Ysée Jouannet, 16 years old and 12 years.
To his right, we recognized his aunt, the actress Audrey Lamy, who plays in a feature film in competition, the scathing “Heureux Gagnants”, by Maxime Govare and Romain Choay.
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On stage, Thomas Jouannet started with a joke.
“It’s the first time in my life that I’ve seen my name so often in the credits,” he joked… Before interrupting himself, overcome by emotion.
It is precisely the portrait of a father disconcerted in front of his daughter that the very funny and spicy “Allez mon fille” paints in fifteen minutes.
Freshly dumped by his wife, Alex (played by Thomas Jouannet) accompanies his teenager (Mado Jouannet) to a baton twirling championship, a discipline that combines dance, gymnastics, theater and baton handling.
But he loses it when he learns that his daughter is on her period, that she has a boyfriend and that she begins to openly confide about her sex life...
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