Willy I
Willy 1er
Directed by
France
2016
82 min
- French
Fiction
When his twin brother dies, Willy, 50, finally decides to leave his parents’ home. He moves to a small nearby town to start afresh. «In Caudebec I’ll live. An apartment, I’ll have one. And friends too. And you can all go to hell!» Though a misfit, Willy tries to find his place in a world unknown.
Awards
- Grand Prize - IFF Cult
Festivals
Credits
- Cast
- Daniel Vannet
- Noémie Lvovsky
- Romain Léger
- Eric Jacquet
- Alexandre Jacques
- Robert Follet
- Geneviève Plet
- Screenplay
- Hugo P. Thomas
- Marielle Gautier
- Ludovic et Zoran Boukherma
- Cinematography
- Thomas Rames
- Editing
- Xavier Sirven
- Héloïse Pelloquet
- Music
- Hugo P. Thomas
- Production
- BAXTER FILMS
- Sales
- ALMA CINEMA
Press
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When four directors meet a wonderful character, you get... a rhythmic, very successful film.
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The non-professional actor delivers a touching and vanity-free performance that combines understated melancholy with deadpan drolleries.
Hugo P. Thomas
France
Hugo P. Thomas is a French filmmaker who co-directed ICH BIN EINE TATA and PERRAULT, LA FONTAINE, MY ASS!, which was awarded at Clermont-Ferrand ISFF.
Selected Filmography
Marielle Gautier
France
Marielle Gautier was born in Nice in 1987. She made multiple short films before co-directing with Zoran Boukherma, Ludovic Boukherma et Hugo P. Thomas her first feature-length film, WILLY I, which was presented at ACID during Cannes in 2016.
Ludovic Boukherma & Zoran Boukherma
France
We are attached to the idea of mixing references to the American horror movies we grew up watching and French comedy and drama. We like bringing American monsters to the French countryside we grew up in--where they're not supposed to belong.
Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma are twin brothers born in 1992 in Marmande, France. They attended L'École de la Cité in Paris, the film and television school founded by Luc Besson in 2012. In 2016, at the age of 23, they co-directed their first feature film WILLY I (2016), with Marielle Gautier and Hugo Thomas. It was selected at ACID in Cannes and won the d’Ornano-Valenti Award for Best French First Film. Prior films include PERRAULT, LA FONTAINE, MY ASS! (2014), which was awarded at Clermont-Ferrand ISFF, and ICH BIN EINE TATA (2015). Their latest film, TEDDY (2020), is the first they’ve directed by themselves and was an official selection at Cannes.
