The Lulus

Official Selection of Tiantan Award

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France | 109min

Producer：Marc Gabizon, Clément Calvet, Jérémie Fajner, Éric Boquého, Thierry Barle, Adeline Fontan Tessaur, Jérôme Rougier, Christel Henon, Lilian Eche

Screenplay：Yann Samuell

Cinematographer：Vincent Gallot

Editor：Sylvie Landra

Sound Designer：Bernard Borel, Nicolas Leroy, GrÉG Vincent, Michel Schillings

Composer：Mathieu Lamboley

Production Company: Superprod Films, Wild Bunch, Les Films Du Lézard, Elle Driver, Bidibul Productions

World Sales: Elle Driver

Cast：Tom Castaing、Léonard Fauquet、Mathys Gros、Loup Pinard、Paloma Lebeaut、François Damiens、Alex Lutz、Solal Devey、Isabelle Carré

Synopsis

August 1914, while the German army is gaining ground in the North of France, four boys aged 10 to 15, Lucien, Lucas, Luigi and Ludwig are left behind during the evacuation of their orphanage. Without the protection of Abbé Turpin and the schoolteacher Leutellier, the Lulus are now stranded on their own behind the enemy front line. Soon joined by Luce, a young girl separated from her parents, they decide to reach the neutral country of Switzerland by all means possible... they embark on an adventure for which nothing has prepared them! They will discover that the supposed enemies can turn out to be formidable allies, like Hans, the German deserter with a big heart, Louison, the so-called witch of the village, Gaston, the grumpy clog maker or their new friend Moussa, a young Senegalese rifleman. The Lulus is a family movie that is innovative and demanding. It mixes reality with naivete, humor with emotion, intimacy with spectacle, and nostalgia with universality.

Director

Yann Samuell

A gifted illustrator, Yann Samuell put his talents to use in order to pay for his film studies, which he began immediately after graduating from high school. His first feature-length film, Love Me if You Dare (2003) was an immediate international success and went on to become the most widely distributed French movie. This success opened the doors of Hollywood, where he made My Sassy Girl in 2007 with Elisha Cuthbert. He returned to France with With Love... From the Age of Reason (2010), and returned to the mainstream with his adaptation of War of the Buttons (2011). Next came two ghost movies, with the American-British The Great Ghost Rescue and an adaptation the Oscar Wilde story The Canterville Ghost (2016). Yann Samuell does screenwriting for others in France and the United States; he writes literary texts as well. Yann also makes time to engage in social and environmental issues. His personal passions remain literature, philosophy, and astrophysics… as well as his first love: visual art.

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