Gilbert Thouvenin, "L'homme qui ne devait pas vieillir" (DR)

Gilbert Thouvenin, "L'homme qui ne devait pas vieillir" (DR)

“My God, why did you take them from me?”

That’s the question that 82-year-old Gilbert Thouvenin asks himself every day. His wife and three of his four children committed suicide, victims both of the little-known illness of bipolarity and of the wickedness of a family in their small village. Summary of his book “L’homme qui ne doit pas vieillir*” and interview.

Young Eva, played by Lucie Charles-Alfred (center), arrives at a palace where she is to be trained by Simone, a cantankerous old hand played by Corinne Masiero.

Young Eva, played by Lucie Charles-Alfred (center), arrives at a palace where she is to be trained by Simone, a cantankerous old hand played by Corinne Masiero.

The revolt of the “Little Hands”

Director Nessim Chikhaoui came to the Rencontres du Cinéma de Gérardmer to present his film inspired by the Paris hotel maids’ strikes. A mix of comedy and social film.