Filmlovers!

What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age story. Memories, fiction, discoveries come together in an irrepressible torrent of pictures.

• Arnaud DesplechinDirector
• Arnaud DesplechinWriter

• Louis BirmanPaul (6 years old)
• Dominique PaïniThe Painter
• Clément Hervieu-LégerBarthes reader
• Françoise LebrunThe Grandmother
• Sandra LaugierThe Philosopher
• Olga MilshteinPhilosophy Student
• Milo Machado-GranerPaul (14 years old)
• Margaux MussanoLa jeune fille ciné-club
• Sam ChemoulPaul (22 years old)
• Marilou PoujardieuValérie
• Salomé Rose SteinSylvia
• Micha LescotProfessor Censier