Même les Mêchants révent d’amour

Jeannine is over 85. Her likes: musette balls, figure skaters’ costumes, and rolling six on a Ludo. Her dislikes: sugar on grapefruit, horror movies, and people who spit. When she’s told that her memory is on its last legs, Jeannine is determined not to let it get to her. So she makes lists. All kinds of lists. And she begins recording in a notebook all the joys that have marked her life. When her granddaughter Julia joins her in Provence, she discovers something that Jeannine never dared to tell. The story of a long-kept secret, of a lie. Surrounded by a group of cheerful residents, Julia tires to shed light on the story’s gray areas. What if it’s not too late to rewrite the past?

“A gem! A marvel!”

— Sandrine Dantard, FNAC Grenoble

“There is a hint of Pagnol in the air in this beautiful story of transmission, where the pages are filled with tenderness.”

— Marie-France magazine