

What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age story. Memories, fiction, discoveries come together in an irrepressible torrent of pictures.
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FILMLOVERS! directed by Arnaud Despechin - Official Trailer
Cast
Louis Birman
Paul (6 years old)
Dominique Païni
The Painter

Clément Hervieu-Léger
Barthes reader

Françoise Lebrun
The Grandmother
Sandra Laugier
The Philosopher

Olga Milshtein
Philosophy Student

Milo Machado-Graner
Paul (14 years old)
Margaux Mussano
La jeune fille ciné-club

Sam Chemoul
Paul (22 years old)
Marilou Poujardieu
Valérie

Salomé Rose Stein
Sylvia

Micha Lescot
Professor Censier
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