She is the one who throws the slap at the end of the screening. Sitting next to Jacques Doillon, in the middle of the large room of the CGR in Angoulême (Charente), Brigitte Macron is the first to get up at the end of the “CE2” session. She warmly applauds the director, before being imitated by the other spectators. This August 25, 2021, the feature film is presented in preview at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival. Twenty-ninth production by Jacques Doillon (“la Drôlesse”, “le Petit Criminel” or “Ponette”), “CE2” talks about harassment at school. “Magnificent”, “very, very beautiful”, “very moving”, comments the first lady in front of the cameras as she leaves the cinema.
Filmed between August and September 2020, the film features Claire, an 8-year-old girl, harassed by Kevin, a kid who wants to kiss her on the mouth. While investigating Kevin, Claire's mother learns that, in his nursery, he rubbed himself "naked against the buttocks of the other children". “He is not lucky enough to have been born where he should be,” says a childcare worker about the little boy, whose mother, with tattoos and pink hair, drinks, and whose father, a soldier, lives in a mobile home. and “puts potatoes” on his son to the point that he sometimes takes refuge in a cupboard. Little by little, Claire's mother takes a liking to Kevin and her daughter becomes closer to him...