This Sunday, August 17, 2025, the young generation and its elders have an appointment and come together thanks to the feature film A small miracle, broadcast on the TF1 channel. A film inspired by a real moving story … Télé-Loisirs tells you everything you need to know!
It is proven and mentioned in different reports: the mixture of generations is working. An ideal subject for cinema, and more particularly for the genre often appreciated by the feel good movie, which shows beautiful feelings and delivers a positive message. In fact, the theme was notably addressed in recent When you are big (2023) worn in particular by Aïssa Maïga, or Retirement home 2 (2024) Comedy for which Enrico Macias was caught in the act of lies and which brought a good sum to its main interpreter, Kev Adams. The recipe, even if it is proven, works again in A small miraclea comedy that turns out to be touching, broadcast this Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 9:10 p.m. on TF1.
What is the origin of the scenario ofA small miracle ?
This time, it is because her class burned that Juliette (Alice Pol) decides to bring her students to an unoccupied room with the nearest retirement home. After difficult beginnings, cohabitation is more harmonious. But it is the shock of generations that constitutes all the salt of the scenario. The idea of the film came to director Sophie Bourde (who then signed Superpapa With notably Mitty Hazanavicius), looking at an American documentary on an establishment whose director had noticed that the morale of her residents was down … and had decided to join a kindergarten class in her home. “”In a short time, she had seen her boarders find a smile“Explains the filmmaker.”I have always loved directing children, despite their sometimes turbulent behavior, working with them always fascinated me, they do not calculate anything and are always in spontaneity, in the desire to play.“The shooting ofA small miracle was not easy, due to the health crisis. “”I thought you would never have the authorizations to turn children and the elderly together“recalls Sophie Bourde.
Who plays Edouard in the film A small miracle ?
Among the residents whose life will be jostled, the public will have the pleasure of finding Eddy Mitchell, a grump like never in the shoes of Edouard, former school teacher finally in the big heart, in the line of his character in The old stoves. And each one to hope that this will not be the last session of the favorite Crooner of the French, the actor and singer who announced, last March, the cancellation of his summer tour for health reasons.