Mardi 14 juin 19h00 Entrée gratuite - Free entrance

Simon, la trentaine, issu d’une famille de juifs séfarades, partage sa vie entre son métier de journaliste à Tabac Magazine, sa copine Christine avec qui il n’arrive pas à avoir d’enfant et ses amis Fabrice, Léa et Roché.

Côté famille, il a quelques comptes à régler avec son père psy, mais il prend surtout soin de sa grand-mère qui perd la tête et rend la vie impossible à son entourage.

Thirty-year-old Simon juggles with life and his problems. He shares his time between his job as a journalist at Tabac Magazine, his girlfriend Christine and their trouble having a child and his friends Fabrice, Léa and Roché. On the family front, they are Sephardic Jews and Simon has scores to settle with his shrink father. Most of all, Simon takes care of his grandmother who is losing her mind and makes life unbearable for everyone around her. But meeting Claire, the young pregnant neighbor abandoned by her husband, will give his existence an unexpected twist.

ONCE WE GROW UP, Renaud Cohen’s first film, is a subtle comedy about a delicate time : hitting thirty. In the heart of this building in Belleville, old and young, couples and singles, Ashkenazi and Sephardic all run into each other. Contact with this little world will allow Simon, the endearing burlesque anti-hero, to learn who he is and come out of himself. With a sharp sense of timing and situation, Renaud Cohen draws a portrait of their individual and private experiences, weaving these stories like narrative threads rubbing up against each other. The success also belongs to the actors : Mathieu Demy (OUR PRECIOUS CHILDREN), Amira Casar (WOULD I LIE TO YOU ?) and Maurice Bénichou (AMELIE POULAIN) who are all incredibly perceptive and sincere.

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