“Jim’s novel” adapted for the cinema by the Larrieu brothers

The film, adapted from the novel by Pierrick Bailly, is released in theaters on Wednesday. A beautiful film that directly addresses today’s issues such as new forms of parenting.

Jim’s novel made by the brothers Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu, adapted from the novel by Pierrick Bailly, is released in theaters on Wednesday, August 14. The “Jim” of the title is the name of a child, whose different ages and successive wounds the film will show us. At the beginning, he is still in Florence’s womb, separated from his biological father. She will begin a relationship with Aymeric, a sort of big teenager who is a bit of a dreamer and lost, and a former colleague who becomes Jim’s adoptive father. Several years of somewhat improvised family happiness in a house on the heights of the Jura, before Christophe, the famous biological father, reappears.

“I found it to be a film whose emotion reached me because I found it very modest.“, explains Karim Leklou who plays Aymeric and whose good-natured figure and wide-eyed gaze we have appreciated in several recent films.”I found that it was a film that spoke of a real nice guy like we rarely see in the cinema. And it’s almost a political position to treat a character who stands up to the situation, who is not at all a passive character, while being emotionally elegant in human relationships. I found that very beautiful and I found that it was a film of a bitter tenderness.“, he continues.

Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu offer here a film full of light, poetic and melancholic, but almost tamed in their usually whimsical work, probably because they are adapting a novel here without having written the story. They can also count on a troupe of actors who each have a fantasy in their acting, voice or look: Laetitia Dosch, Sara Giraudeau, the singer Bertrand Belin, and therefore Karim Leklou.

“What I like most about the Larrieu brothers is perhaps their curiosity.“, explains Karim Leklou.”We are not in a realism, while the words seem very natural, that we speak as in life, that we are on situations which would seem everyday, continues the actor. In the end, the film only shows one scene where this father takes his son to school, otherwise there wouldn’t be any others.”

“We are more in a shift, in a sort of poetry and fantasy, but very discreet in the film and which passes through both the image and the humor.”

Karim Leklou

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“There is quite a bit of humor in the film“, insists Karim Leklou. Without doubt among one of the most beautiful films of the year, Jim’s novel has another quality, that of directly evoking today’s subjects such as new forms of parenting.