Sous les étoiles de Paris: French drama about a homeless woman who helps a young boy on the run find his mother.
Plot and background
Christine (Catherine Frot) has had to overcome many setbacks in her life. Isolated, she therefore lives lonely under a bridge in Paris. One cold winter night, she finds the little boy Suli (Mahamadou Yaffa) in front of her shelter. The boy from Eritrea seems hopelessly lost, does not speak a word of French and is looking for his mother.
In his few belongings, Christine finds deportation papers that hold a sad fate in store for the boy. Christine takes care of Suli and together they search for his mother in the streets of Paris. Without really being able to communicate with each other, the two find each other in an unreal and harsh world and develop a familial affection for each other. For Christine, it is a lesson in helpfulness and humanity that she has long missed in her life.
The trailer already shows you the hard life on the street:
“Under the Stars of Paris” – background, cast, cinema release
It is a difficult as well as complex subject that director Claus Drexel (“Au Bord Du Monde”) tackles in “Under the Stars of Paris”. The filmmaker, who lives in France, was completely inspired by the fates of the homeless in Paris and France, sought dialogue in order to stage their lives with dignity.
At the same time, he sought contact with migrants and developed the idea for the script together with Olivier Brunhes according to individual fates. The collaboration between Drexel and leading actress Catherine Frot (“A Kiss from Beatrice”) began after she saw his documentary “Au Bord Du Monde” about homeless people.
In France, the drama was already released in autumn 2020. In this country, the cinema release of “Under the Stars of Paris” was postponed to 19 August 2021
due to the corona pandemic.
