Grand Paris
From one year to the next, the Cinémathèque québécoise takes the pulse of recent and current French cinema, in partnership with the Institut français, in order to follow the evolution of an increasingly diversified French production.
Leslie and Renard, two young slackers from the Paris suburbs, find a mysterious object on a construction site belonging to the future Grand Paris metro line. Is it an artifact, an ancient talisman, or a relic of a lost civilization? Convinced they have found a pot of gold, the two friends investigate, using whatever means they have at their disposal, and despite the vagaries of transportation, throughout a crazy night spent traveling all over the Île-de-France area. The first feature film from a new talent in slapstick cinema, who manages to breathe poetry into places where it seems hardest to find.
Martin Jauvat
Martin Jauvat is a French film director and actor. He began writing and directing short films as a self-taught filmmaker in his home town in the mid-2010s. He directed and self-produced his first two short films Les vacances à Chelles et Mozeb in 2017. He later met producer Emmanuel Chaumet from Ecce Films, which co-produced and distributed his short films between 2019 and 2021. He then directed his first feature, Grand Paris, presented in the ACID section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2022. The film also exists in a 30-minute version, retitled Grand Paris Express. As an actor, he won the Jury Prize for Best Male Newcomer at the Festival Jean-Carmet for his role in Garance Kim's Ville éternelle (2022).
Explore
Présenté en collaboration avec
