
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.

as Paul (6 years old)

as The Painter

as Barthes reader

as The Grandmother

as The Philosopher

as Philosophy Student

as Paul (14 years old)

as La jeune fille ciné-club

as Paul (22 years old)

as Valérie

as Sylvia

as Professor Censier

as The Philosopher

as The American Friend

as 30-year-old

as Paul Dédalus (The Filmmaker)

as Delphine, la soeur

as Etudiant en philosophie

as Etudiant en philosophie

as L'ouvreuse 'Cris et chuchotements'

as Lycéen ciné-club

as Etudiante Censier

as Etudiant Censier

as Le père

as La mère

as Fisèle, le petit frère

as La confidente de Paul

as Le narrateur

as La cinéaste