Le Cancre

Le Cancre is a 2016 French film directed and written by Paul Vecchiali. With this film, Paul Vecchiali shows the story of a man who revisits his past as much as that of a filmmaker who revisits a whole part of French cinema.

Plot
The film follows the adversarial relationship between a father and son, both incurably emotional. The father is haunted by the memory of Marguerite, the great love of his youth, and he lives only in the hope of finding her. The son however is somewhat lost in his life, and later takes the measure of his attachment to his grandfather.

Cast

 * Catherine Deneuve as Marguerite
 * Paul Vecchiali as Rodolphe
 * Mathieu Amalric as Boris
 * Édith Scob as Sarah
 * Annie Cordy as Christiane
 * Françoise Lebrun as Valentine
 * Françoise Arnoul as Mimi
 * Pascal Cervo as Laurent
 * Noël Simsolo as Ferdinand
 * Raphaël Neal as Alex
 * Pierre Sénélas as Pierre
 * Marianne Basler as Suzanne

Production
The film started shooting on 5 October 2015.

Release
The movie was released in 2016. It was nominated at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016.