The Grand Highway

The Grand Highway

1987 · 104 min · FR · R · 7.3 (95 votes)
Dir. Jean-Loup Hubert · Starring Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Antoine Hubert, Vanessa Guedj, Christine Pascal, Pascale Roberts · Music Georges Granier
Drama

Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year- old girl next door, and learns from her about life.

VIBE

A sun-drenched, nostalgic journey into the heart of a French summer. It captures the bittersweet ache of burgeoning awareness and the simple joys of rural childhood friendships, all with a gentle, observant touch.

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small towncountry lifecoming of agerural areasummer vacationtomboy
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