For Jean-Jacques Sempé and René Goscinny, creating The little Nicolas was a way to heal the wounds of a dented childhood. That of a beaten little Bordelais, gone to Paris with his sketches under his arm, or of a globetrotter exiled to escape the Shoah. It also shows under the grain of the paper and the transparency of watercolor the resilient destiny of brilliant creators. Intimate woundsīut this seemingly joyful film does not just tell the carefree life of a young French schoolboy. Between camaraderie, arguments, fights, games, nonsense, and punishments galore, Nicolas lives a childhood full of joys and learning. Leaning over a large white sheet, somewhere between Montmartre and Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Rene Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé pionately discuss the creation of a character who could live hectic adventures, and thus bear witness to the childhood of its two creators… This laughing and mischievous boy is of course Little Nicolas.
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