The first sublime images of Marcel and Mr. Pagnol: trailer

With this animated biopic, Sylvain Chomet signs his return to the big screen through a reconstruction of childhood memories of the famous Marcel Pagnol.

A few months ago, Marcel Pagnol was back under the sun of the Croisette. In 1955, he was the first president of the jury to put the famous Palme d’Or (Marty by Delbert Mann). This time, it was on the screen that we found it, in special sessions, in the animation biopic of Sylvain Chomet (The illusionist,, The Triplets of Belleville Or The old lady and the pigeons). The first images of Marcel and Mr. Pagnol Open the doors of a trip to Provence to us, through the cinema and childhood memories of Pagnol.

More than ten years later Attila MarcelChomet explores the exceptional life of the writer and director, via his meeting with his childish double. From Provence to Paris stands a portrait of a man who attended the great historical upheavals and who saw the film industry evolve. First had met the creator of Belleville tripletswho had confided in this project, still in preparation at the time:

“The Marcel Child goes back to time to meet the adult pagnol, which has become a renowned filmmaker and one of the major literary figures of the 20th century, he was. Marcel Pagnol’s films are out of time and out of borders, a bit like the films of Charlie Chaplin. Originally, he hated cinema! He couldn’t bear the idea of the mute. He therefore became a great playwright, and it was when he writes Marius that he discovers speaking cinema. “

“Without Pagnol, there would not have been Audiard and the new wave, he told us too. He brought something very special to the world of cinema. I think that Marseille trilogy has a real relationship with authenticity. The Provencal characteristics of his work represent a color. But behind, the form is universal! “

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To honor the author of My father’s glory – by imagining a dialogue between the sixties that he was in the late 1950s and the 10 year old child whom he was – Sylvain Chomet reveals a first trailer with a visual style faithful to his works. One of the most anticipated French animated films in 2025, to be discovered in theaters on October 15. In the vocal cast, we will find Laurent Lafitte, joined by Géraldine Pailhas and Thierry Garcia.

Synopsis: “At the height of his glory, Marcel Pagnol receives the command of a chief editor of a great female magazine for the writing of a literary soap opera, in which he can tell his childhood, his Provence, his first love … by writing the first sheets, the child he was formerly, the little Marcel, suddenly appears to him. Thus, his memories reappear over the words: the arrival of speaking cinema, the first major cinema studio, its attachment to actors, the experience of writing. The biggest storyteller of all time then becomes the hero of his own story. “

Here is the trailer: