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“Seeing children at the cinema is invigorating!” : Bruno Dumont tells how he shot the solar “Les Roches rouge”

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“Seeing children at the cinema is invigorating!â€: Bruno Dumont tells how he shot the solar “Les Roches rougeâ€

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The director is presenting at the Filmmakers’ Fortnight a film shot this time on the Cote d’Azur, the main characters of which are six young children (and a quad bike). On Wednesday, he detailed this particular experience during a master class. Excerpts.

“Seeing children at the cinema is invigorating!” : Bruno Dumont tells how he shot the solar “Les Roches rouge”

Bruno Dumont, à Cannes le 20 mai 2026. Photo Fanny de Gouville for Télérama

By Samuel Douhaire

Publié le 21 mai 2026 à 12h33

Bruno Dumont was born as a filmmaker at the Directors’ Fortnight in 1997 with La Vie de Jésus, special mention at the Caméra d’or. Twenty-nine years and two Grand Jury Prizes (for L’Humanité in 1999 and Flandres in 2006) later, he was back at the Théâtre Croisette on Wednesday May 20 to present the world premiere of his new feature film, Les Roches rouge, which he wanted “Deeply childish, joyful and free”, a desire for simplicity after the big production of The Empire (2024). For once, the director of P’tit Quinquin has left his beloved northern landscapes behind to head for the Côte d’Azur, about twenty minutes from Cannes,

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