
What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age story. Memories, fiction, discoveries come together in an irrepressible torrent of pictures.
Paul (6 years old)
The Painter
Barthes reader

The Grandmother

The Philosopher
Philosophy Student

Paul (14 years old)

La jeune fille ciné-club
Paul (22 years old)

Valérie
Sylvia

Professor Censier

The Philosopher
The American Friend

30-year-old

Paul Dédalus (The Filmmaker)

Delphine, la soeur
Etudiant en philosophie
Etudiant en philosophie
L'ouvreuse 'Cris et chuchotements'
Lycéen ciné-club
Etudiante Censier
Etudiant Censier

Le père

La mère
Fisèle, le petit frère
La confidente de Paul

Le narrateur

La cinéaste
