'Remi, Nobody's Boy' trivia and fun facts
A real artist
Darkness, the Border Collie who plays Capi, is a true circus dog: he is used to doing the numbers he performs in the film in street performances and has a strong complicity with his master.
Boy number 15
Maleaume Paquin, the boy who plays Rémi enfant, is the fifteenth child Antoine Blossier met during the casting. In all, the director saw close to four hundred other children before deciding.
A very difficult sequence
The sequence of the storm in England was shot in the studio for three days. It was a complicated scene to settle.
Cinema festivals
Rémi sans famille is presented on September 30, 2018 in preview at the Première festival in the Pathé and Gaumont cinemas. He is also selected and presented on November 17, 2018 at the Sarlat Film Festival.
Working hard
To prepare for the shoot, Maleaume Paquin worked with a coach. The hardest thing for the young comedian was to succeed in the scenes where his character is crying.
Modern tale
Hector Malot's novel dates from 1878. Antoine Blossier sought to modernize it by providing a fairy "filter" and a certain notion of adventure.
Creating music
For his film, Antoine Blossier wanted the music to be "symphonic and thematic, like the great French compositions like those of Michel Legrand or Vladimir Cosma, while absorbing the sounds of John Williams and Danny Elfman". He relies on Romaric Laurence, his faithful composer of all his feature films.