Goscinny and Sempé’s paper hero for the third time on the screens

The little Nicolas, a “paper hero” imagined by Goscinny and Sempé during the 30 Glorieuses, comes to life for the third time in the cinema. Audrey Lamy and Jean-Paul Rouve, who will play Nicolas’ parents, are also very big fans of Goscinny. “He’s so fair in the way he puts himself in a child’s head. It is universal children through the ages“, confided Jean-Paul Rouve, during the preview of the film.

We find the same children, the same nonsense and the same traumas during a move, the main plot of the film. In 1959, Goscinny and Sempé had published the adventures of the little boy in the form of a comic strip in a newspaper. Soon, the stories will be translated into books, 220 in total. Children like to compare themselves to characters in the story like Alceste, the greedy, or Clotaire, the dunce.