Le Garçu

Maurice Pialat had the idea to use his son Antoine in the film, for whom he "wanted to leave something behind" in a fiction co-written with his wife Sylvie Danton. "During the shooting, there were elements of childhood I didn't know how to capture, elements that change with the passing time. I often worked in very short takes, because Antoine wasn't interested in acting... The fleeting nature of time envelopes the film." (M. Pialat) "This constant spur-of-the-moment filming has an unpredictable subject - a child, Maurice's child, who he filmed spontaneously after asking himself the question: what will he know once I'm dead?" (G. Depardieu) Pialat also makes reference in this film to the death of the "Garçu", his own father, echoing The Mouth Agape and its evocation of his own mother's death.