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.
Top Cast
Louis Birman as Paul (6 years old)
Dominique Païni as The Painter
Clément Hervieu-Léger as Barthes reader
Françoise Lebrun as The Grandmother
Sandra Laugier as The Philosopher
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