Cassandre, Hélène Merlin’s first family drama: trailer

The director is inspired by her experience for this first feature film centered on an unhealthy family and a young teenager who tries to get rid of it.

Cassandre was a long -term job for the director Hélène Merlin. After a career in culture and a few years of radio journalism, she decides to bring to the screen a story that she draws of his own adolescence. 10 years ago, the novice director began writing the script. Here is the pitch:

“Summer 1998. Campaign. Cassandre is 14 years old. In the little family mansion, his parents and his older brother note that his body has changed. Fortunately, Cassandre is passionate about horse and joined a small equestrian center for the holidays where she is adopted as a strange animal. She discovers another normality that extracts her little-to-small from a family body that swallows her… ”

In the trailer, we discover the young Billie Blain In the main role of this adolescent girl in full phase of realization. Actress for ten years, she be particularly noticed in 2023 in the fantastic film The animal kingdomwhere she interprets Nina alongside Romain Duris, Paul Kircher and Adèle Exarchopoulos.

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Cassandre realizes that his family framework is not healthy When she integrates a new equestrian center and made a friend there. She opens her eyes to her reality, which is not that of others. His mother, embodied by Zabou Breitman – who realizes The boysoon indoors – makes strange reflections on his body while his brother (Florian Lesieur) seems a bit Too close to the girl. The father, a former soldier, is embodied by the actor Éric RUF (from the Comédie Française).

The film, a prize for the young jury of the Qiff of Quimper festival, seizes heavy subjects linked to physical, psychological and sexual violence within the family. The casting is completed Laïka Blanc-Francard (My night),, Guillaume Gouix (director of Amore Mio), with the participation ofAgathe Rousselle (Titanium).

Cassandre will come out in theaters April 2.