INTERVIEW
After Le Redoutable , a biopic devoted to Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Hazanavicius changes his register. The director of the OSS 117 is currently finishing his next film, The Forgotten Prince , expected in cinemas in January 2020. A film that has a five-star cast, with Omar Sy headlining, but also François Damiens and Bérénice Béjo. Invited Friday of Europe 1, the filmmaker announces "a fantastic comedy", but also "a family film".
"I'm very happy with the movie"
In this feature film, Omar Sy will play a father who lives alone with his daughter Sofia, and to whom, every night, he tells extraordinary stories, which "when Sofia falls asleep, come alive somewhere in a populated imaginary world." knights, pirates and other dragons ", explains the synopsis available on the Pathé website. Until the day Sofia enters college, and no longer needs the stories of his father, to the despair of the latter.
At the microphone of Europe 1, Michel Hazavicius, who is currently finishing the special effects, says he is "very happy" with the film. And describes, among other things, "a fantastic comedy", but also "a family film about how a father should let his daughter grow up, and how from the outside it looks banal, but inside it's an epic adventure ".