- Directed by: Robin Campillo
- Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Quim Gutiérrez
- Language: French and Malagasy with English subtitles
- Year: 2023
- Duration: 117min
- Certificate: 12A
- Type: Film
At the beginning of the 70s, in Madagascar, a handful of armed forces and their families live in one of the last French military bases abroad, a relic of the ending French colonial empire. Influenced by his reading of the intrepid comic book heroine Fantômette, Thomas, a ten-year-old boy, sweeps with a curious glance what surrounds him. Beneath the carefree expatriate life, his eyes are gradually opening to another reality. A personal, tender film from Robin Campillo (120 BPM) inspired by his own childhood.
“At once a realist drama about political change, and a wildly imaginative evocation of the inner world of childhood”
BFI