"The Christmas Challenge" is about rediscovering the desire to score goals

• A top footballer loses her footing after a failed season.

• She rediscovers a taste for life and sport thanks to a nature lover.

• Aurore Planas is a discovery against Florian Hessique in the invigorating "Christmas Challenge".

What if happiness was in the chalet?

demonstrates this when a footballer who has lost her way takes refuge in Haute-Savoie to be cheered up by a coach who teaches her above all to take stock of her priorities.

"I wanted to make a Christmas film that wasn't too corny," the director told

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There is magic intended to do good to the spectator but also a more serious theme.

“Like that of restoring confidence in a sportswoman who no longer believes in herself and embodied by the discovery Aurore Planas, surprising in her first major role.

Mental preparation of top athletes

"I based myself on my own experience to write the film and I thought of several women that I could meet in my sporting activity to create my heroine", explains the director of

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Alongside his career as a filmmaker, Florian Hessique takes care of the mental preparation of high-level footballers and basketball players, a source of fascinating encounters that have fueled

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The heroine at her wit's end in the first part of the film recovers from contact with the gruff but tender man embodied by Florian Hessique himself.

"It is obvious that, on the scale of the problems of the world, not being able to score a goal may seem insignificant, he specifies, but professional sportsmen have made heavy sacrifices for their discipline which occupies the center of their existence.

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The public experiences the same metamorphosis as the heroine of the film.

By changing context and concerns, the latter takes the step back necessary to start off on the right foot after having taken up

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