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2019 · 108 min

A warm, funny, and bittersweet life collage that feels like flipping through a friend's home videos, charming and nostalgic.

Directed by: Anthony Marciano
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Max Boublil, Alice Isaaz, Malik Zidi

Overview: In 1993, Max was 13 when he was offered his first camera. For 25 years he will not stop filming. The bunch of friends, the loves, the successes, the failures. From the 90s to the 2010s, it is the portrait of a whole generation that is emerging through its objective.

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Directed by: Anthony Marciano
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Max Boublil, Alice Isaaz, Malik Zidi

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: friendship
love
memory
coming-of-age
identity
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: found footage
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	6
Realism	7
Romance	5
Tension	2
Darkness	3
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: comedy
Directed by: Anthony Marciano
Written by: Max Boublil, Anthony Marciano
Starring: Max Boublil, Alice Isaaz, Malik Zidi, Arthur Périer, Noémie Lvovsky, Alain Chabat, Camille Lou, Alexandre Desrousseaux
Runtime: 108 min
Country: France
Languages: French

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