“If I were completely pessimistic, I wouldn’t make films,” says the filmmaker, who has written a heartbreaking work, “Gloria Mundi”, where two cultures, two generations, the solidarity of the elderly and the selfishness of the youngest collide.
Jacques Deschamps filmed for a year “Les petits maîtres du grand hôtel”, students and actors of a musical documentary.
The director followed the students of a school hotel in the kitchen, in the dining room and in the bedrooms.
With a peasant reciting verses in his henhouse, young director Mélanie Auffret’s debut film is a tenderly naive rural comedy.
