5 César nominations, 3 million viewers and a lot of tears: Le Grand Chemin with Anemone and Richard Bohringer returns to the cinema. The opportunity for a long interview with Jean-Loup Hubert, its screenwriter and director.
Next year if all goes well, with Thierry Lhermitte and Isabelle Adjani, La Smala, with Josiane Balasko, Le Grand Chemin, with Anémone and Richard Bohringer… In the 1980s, Jean-Loup Hubert successively directed these three films popular.
Le Grand Chemin, in particular, became a great success and touched the hearts of many spectators, thanks to the great tenderness and emotion that emanates from the film. This summer film, centered on the friendship between two children and a withering couple, left its mark on an entire generation when it was released and in favor of numerous TV broadcasts.
Le Grand Chemin appears for the very first time in the cinema in a restored version. For the occasion, AlloCiné spoke at length with Jean-Loup Hubert. Its screenwriter and director gives us many memories and anecdotes about the filming of the film.
What is the relationship between the director and the audience? What happened to the children in the film? Jean-Loup Hubert also evokes with us an unknown subject: the American remake of the film, Paradise, which had been imagined by Disney, with Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith and Elijah Wood, and never released in France.
Discover Jean-Loup Hubert’s secrets in the first part of our Rencontre podcast.
Summer 1959. Abandoned by the father of her children, Claire, pregnant, entrusts her eldest son Louis to a couple of friends Marcelle and Pelo. The little Parisian must learn to familiarize himself with the atmosphere of the countryside and the strange atmosphere that reigns in the home of the couple that a heavy secret has separated for years. The arrival of the little boy will be a new beginning for them.
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Credits:
- Journalist: Brigitte Baronnet
- Editing: Chanelle Morvan
Interview in Paris, June 15, 2023