In adolescence, children have their secret garden, experience their first love affairs, make mistakes. This is the subject of pretty Juniors, worn by a luminous Vanessa Paradis. Single mom and overwhelmed by her teenager, Jordan, who fakes cancer to create a kitty and replace her broken console. But his lie takes serious proportions. We then discover a teenager overwhelmed by his lie and his mistake, who begins the path of redemption, learns to understand and accept his fault and above all to repair the harm he has caused.
Juniors, an uninhibited comedy carried by a touching Vanessa Paradis
In Juniors, we also follow the relationship between Jordan and his mother Véronique, played by Vanessa Paradis. A single mom, she works as a nurse and is often away from home. She left to live in a small village, Mornas, thinking of offering her son a sweet family life in the countryside. But the winding path of life is strewn with pitfalls and for Vanessa Paradis, nothing happened as planned. The actress is fair and touching as a liberated woman and mother overwhelmed by her son’s stupidity but who does everything to help him make up for his mistakes. She perfectly plays the mother who no longer recognizes her son but tries to save their relationship and accept her own awkwardness.
If the subject of Juniors is audacious, it tackles these themes with humor. Juniors is a very nice family comedy, which offers scenes that are alternately hilarious or touching. It is worn by an incredibly accurate Vanessa Paradis, who embodies a mother as fragile as she is strong, uninhibited as impressive. It highlights two excellent young actors in the register of comedy, Ewan Bourdelles who plays Jordan and Noah Zandouche, who plays his hilarious best friend, Patrick. A nice film about family, but also about friendship, between two friends who grow up, make mistakes, but above all care about each other. A film in which mothers, like teenagers, can find themselves!