Mobile Home
Anxieties and Dreams of a generation.
Thomas and Julien are both in their thirties. They have known each other since school, have lived together the birth of their dreams and their progressive dissolution in the big bath of “real life”. Julien takes care of his father Luc who is just coming out of a serious illness. Simon vegetates with parents who do not understand him. And vice versa. They are both at the crossroads: Thomas has just separated from Sylvie with whom he lived, he has no job and no heart. Julien has undertaken to renovate a barn into a banquet hall. Their friends are married, trying with more or less happiness and pleasure to fit into the patterns of life that have been formatted for them. Simon, who received a small sum of money from his parents to settle down, decided to spend it on a mobile home.
This is the starting point of the aptly named Mobil Home, the first feature film by François Pirot, a young Belgian director who has been a favourite of the profession for years. We haven’t met a single producer who had a kind word for him. “That’s a good one,” we were told repeatedly at the airport. Or “François is a real talent. A future great”. And we don’t even talk about the producers who launched his film (Tarantula). That’s enough to say about the credit of the young man. The story he has written and that he is going to stage is the story of a generation. A generation looking for itself or following in the footsteps of its elders. By habit, by ease
The objective of his “hero” is to go on the road, on adventure, to get off the beaten track, to earn a living from day to day, according to his needs. He convinces Julien to accompany him. The mobile home then crystallizes the attention of all. Repressed desires and dreams resurface. Because of (or because of) him, everyone will be forced to consider their options. All the more so since, following an accident, the vehicle remains immobilized for a few more days in the village of the two friends who will also have time to question their vision of the future and their convictions.
To interpret the two buddies, directors and producers have counted on talent and chemistry. They finally chose two young French actors who are rising at the speed of light : Arthur Dupont, nominated at the César 2010 as best male hopeful for Bus Palladium and Guillaume Gouix who struck the spirits in Le Bel Âge, Belle épine, Copacabana, Poupoupidou and who was great in a supporting role in the series Les Beaux Mecs, recently broadcast on France 2
Like the two main actors that Nic Balthazar brought on board his film Tot Altijd, they are everyday friends. This is very noticeable on the first images that we have discovered in hyper-exclusive. Preparation images in “real situation”, because the director decided to gather the two heroes in a mobile home and experience life together in real conditions. The least we can say at this point is that we can’t wait to see all this transcribed into fiction.