"The First Day of the Rest of Your Life" is the second feature film of Rémi Bezançon 's career. After "Love is in the Air" Ma vie en l'air, this time the director chose to focus on family.
What role does the family play in the trajectory of life? How much weight does freedom have? These questions have been reflected in the first movie " Love is in the Air " and previous short films. Each character in this movie will give his own answer.
Although the film is full of humor and vitality, "The First Day of the Rest of Your Life" still has a sentimental and nostalgic tone. Time goes by irretrievably, and childhood seems to be a lost paradise forever. As for the relationship between family and time, director Besançon has his own understanding: "It is in a family that feels the passage of time more closely, the grown-up children, the aging parents, but from a different perspective Go, the scenery is different. Everyone in the family is developing their relationship with time: Albert goes all the way and never looks back. Regrettably, he is advancing his life in an accelerated way; Rafael is right. On the contrary, the speed of life is slowed down. To him, tomorrow is like eternity; if Flora is ready to put the room in the basement to grow old like red wine, then mother Marie Jeanne wants time Stay or go back to the past; as for Robert, he adheres to the hedonism of living a day." The director said that it is very interesting to compare the pace of life of all these characters. Between Children, parents, and grandparents, parents always think that their children have never grown up, even if they have already given birth to white hair.
