Reinventing Martin

The last piece of art of the french director Anne Fontaine -some of you would recognise her for her previous creations `The Innocents´, or ´Coco Before Chanel´-, Reinventing Marvin (Marvin ou la belle éducation) will be released in the English screens on 14th September 2018.
The film tells us about the struggles in the life of a young Marvin (Jules Porier / Finnegan Oldfield), his survival in an homophobic french village as a youngster, and his progression as an actor and as a person.
It all starts at school. Marvin Bijoux seems to show to others what he is still to discover, and his schoolmates face that by heavily bullying him, making Marvin life a constant hell of explicit abuses. After some strong episodes, he refuses to attend school, and finds the way to spend more time at home with his family. His parents Dany (Grégory Gadebois) and Odile (Catherine Salée), and his elder brother, will face hidden tensions that will eventually arise around the person of Marvin, and how a ´normal´ child should be.
Marvin finds an escape to his life at school, and his family, in theatre. He will have the help of some people throughout the way, like his new school principal, the theatre teacher Abel (Vincent Macaigne), or Isabelle Huppert.
The actors and actresses chosen are amazing, nevertheless, we would like to highlight the work of Jules Porier, who makes an astonishing paper as a young Marvin -is remarkable, and very brave the fact that he is coping with very strong takes at such a young age-.
The story reflects the scaringly shameless normality of a working class village when dealing with a different one. In a way, a story that needs to be tell for all to realize and think about what we are dealing with, still in the XXIst century, in France, and sadly in other parts of the world.
The script of the film is inspired in the autobiographical novel The end of Eddie (En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule) by Édouard Louis.
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