Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, twenty or so carefree and boisterous kids between the ages of three and eleven take advantage of this day to make their parents go crazy. Emma, 9 years old and naturally romantic, decides that Roland, the little boy she met in the street, is unhappy and persuades her friends to adopt him. Victoria spends the day with Martin Socoa, an often distant father whom she learns to love. There are also Muriel, Bruno, Colette and Henri who take off and create panic in their parents' home, while Marylin lives the founding drama of her childhood with a mother of an unreal sweetness. Throughout these little stories, we realize that the world of children has its own logic, totally different from that of adults.
Acting
Actual children, actually acting—no precocious theatre-kid energy.
Direction
Pascal Thomas lets chaos breathe without manufactured drama.
Writing
Dialogue that captures how kids actually think, not how adults think they do.
Director
Pascal Thomas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The French ' Wednesday off' tradition (no school midweek) was real until 2013 reforms, making this a time-capsule of a specific childhood experience.
Pascal Thomas cast non-professional children from Nantes and built scenes through improvisation, explaining the jagged, authentic rhythms.
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