With filmed introduction by director Sylvain Chomet. Sylvain Chomet, the director of The Triplets of Belleville and The Illusionist, turns his animated attention to French playwright, filmmaker, and inventor Marcel Pagnol. At 61 Pagnol appears very close to giving up on his career, so a younger Marcel comes to the rescue. When asked to write a memoir, Pagnol simply can’t do it – not without the help of hope and optimism personified in the figure of young Marcel. Pagnol is viewed as a man at ease with the times, embracing the medium of cinema when his theatre colleagues were too sceptical to try. Set against the backdrop of Paris’ Belle Epoque, the rise of fascism, and the Second World War. Cast (voices) Laurent Lafitte, Géraldine Pailhas, Thierry Garcia, and Anaïs Petit Director Sylvain Chomet I 2025 I France / Belgium / Luxembourg 90 mins I UK distributor Picturehouse