“When you grow up”, or the meeting between the generations

It is an after-school ritual that these students from Saint-Gaudens (Haute-Garonne) love. Homework help takes place at the Ehpad. Facing the teacher’s blackboard, an assembly of very friendly students and residents. “We concentrate here because there is no TV. It’s good to say hello to grandpas and grandmas“, says a little boy. A resident adds: “From the moment we do something, we start living again!“An idea that is also exploited in the film”When you are older“, released in theaters on Wednesday April 26, which takes place in the routine of an nursing home with overheated staff. The town hall then has a funny idea: to use the canteen of the Ehpad for the children.

“A film about the hope of understanding each other better”

“A society that has trouble with people who are fragile, it’s a society, for me, that’s going badly, and it’s nice to show these characters“, confides the actor Vincent Macaigne. Characters from different generations who first meet in a tense atmosphere, which relaxes and then becomes complicit. “It’s a film about hope, precisely, to understand each other better, to look at each other better, to take more time“, confides the director, Andréa Bescond.