Filmlovers!

Filmlovers! (2025)

Spectateurs !

What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age story. Memories, fiction, discoveries come together in an irrepressible torrent of pictures.

Date of release
2025-01-15
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Drama
Director
Arnaud Desplechin
Collection
The Paul Dédalus Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Filmlovers! is a 2024 docufiction drama film written and directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It stars Milo Machado-Graner, Mathieu Amalric and Françoise Lebrun. It features the character of Paul Dédalus, who appeared in Desplechin's earlier films My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument (1996), A Christmas Tale (2008) and My Golden Days (2015). According to Desplechin the film is meant to "celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic".

Production

Filmlovers! is Arnaud Desplechin's fifteenth feature film and is an essay film in homage to cinema. It features the character of Paul Dédalus, who is considered Desplechin's alter-ego and who first appeared in his film My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument (1996) and its prequels A Christmas Tale (2008) and My Golden Days (2015).

Principal photography began on 17 July 2023 in Avion, Pas-de-Calais, where shooting took place for two days at the cinema Le Familia, which was transformed to resemble the 1960s and 1970s. Filming continued that same week in Roubaix and Tourcoing. Desplechin planned to shoot sequences in his former high school, in which a multimedia room bears his name. Filming then moved to Paris.

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