Julia Piaton in a road movie with a touch of love: trailer

Maël Piriou’s first film will also be worn by actors Grégory Gadebois and Quentin Dolmaire.

For the first time, Maël Piriou Go behind the camera for his new feature film, A touch of love. The director of this news comedy made his first steps in the cinema as scriptwriter. He notably wrote the script for several films, alone, in Between zero and ten (2019) or in collaboration in A three we go (2015) co -written with Jérôme Bonnell. For his first film as a director, Maël Piriou embarks on a Road movie tinged with nostalgia.

Achievement of an incurable disease, Mélanie (Julia Piaton) has the click: she wants to enjoy the time she has left. Lawyer, she decides to leave everything to undertake the journey of her life, go to Spain to explore her sensuality in a brothel. But she does not leave alone and embarks her best friend, Benjamin (Quentin Dolmaire), less wrapped, who will do everything to delay the arrival at destination. Launched in a long introspective journey, they are led by Lucas (Grégory Gadebois), a lawyer’s client and just out of prison. The rather gruff man guides the shipping at the wheel of a van in pitiful condition.

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For this odyssey, the director brings together a four -star casting, honoring his first film, A touch of love. In the main role, he features Julia Piaton Who embodies the character of Mélanie. The French actress turned out to cinema in 2008 in Aristos Directed by her mother, Charlotte de Turckheim. Known for his roles in Our 18 years by Frédéric Berthe (2008), What did we do to the good Lord? by Philippe de Chauveron (2014) or Day J From Reem Kherici (2017), she is showing the new film by Barbara Schulz, THE Khéops secretalongside Fabrice Luchini, currently in the cinema. She also played in Little victories by Mélanie Auffret with Michel Blanc in 2023.

Quentin Dolmaire, In the role of Benjamin, took his first steps in the movies in the film Three memories of my youth of Arnaud Desplechin who earned him a Caesar appointment of best male hope In 2016 for his interpretation of Paul Dédalus in adolescence, the main character. He is also appointed for the Light prize for best male hope For the same film. The actor once again wins the main role in A violent desire for happiness by Clément Schneider.

Finally, the former pupil of the Comédie-Française, Grégory Gadeboisembodies the character of Lucas. His interpretation in Angèle and Tony Alix Delaporte is largely acclaimed and offers him the César for best male hope In 2012. Alongside Jean Dujardin, the actor plays a presidential candidate in Presidentsproduced by Anne Fontaine in 2021 (with whom he has already turned Police a year before). The same year he was part of the main cast of Deliciousa Franco-Belgian film directed by Éric Besnard which he found in 2023 in Simple things In duet with Lambert Wilson. Recently, he was showing the film The thread In duet with the famous actor and director Daniel Auteuil.

A touch of love will be released in theaters on April 30, 2025. In the meantime, here is the trailer:

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