In Saint-Étienne, the professor’s son has grown up and is now discovering the desires, dreams, and torments of adult life.
There are endless discussions in cafés, the latest Ramones album found at the record store, the threat of military service, movies with De Niro, and of course, girls. Well, one girl in particular. With Aurore, there is the pain of first heartbreaks, the discovery of sexuality, and the first steps of living together, like an intense and awkward dress rehearsal for what the adult world would be like. But every golden age comes to an end one day… to make way for what we might call life.
With La Fin de la récré, Luc Chomarat amazes us by reviving a memory as intimate as it is universal: that of the transition to adulthood. Between humor and melancholy, he paints a portrait of a generation that hopes to live differently from its parents, before being caught up in the reality of a changing world.
