{"id":14424,"date":"2026-05-13T17:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/14424\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:04:15","slug":"gabin-trailer-in-directors-fortnight-documentary-a-boy-in-northern-france-faces-a-crossroads-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/14424\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gabin\u2019 Trailer: In Director\u2019s Fortnight Documentary, A Boy In Northern France Faces A Crossroads \u2014 Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"

EXCLUSIVE: Gabin, set to premiere Thursday in Cannes, tells a classic coming of age story, a boy growing up in Northern France who must choose whether to follow a path prescribed by his family or strike out on his own.<\/p>\n

The documentary directed by Maxence Voiseux bows in the Directors\u2019 Fortnight sidebar, alongside fictional titles including Butterfly Jam<\/a>, Atonement<\/a>, and Clarissa<\/a>. We have your first look at Voiseux\u2019s film in the trailer above.<\/p>\n

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Gabin, shot over a period of 10 years, follows Gabin Jourdel from boyhood through adolescence. He\u2019s the youngest of the Jourdel children and, as a lover of animals, perhaps not well disposed to become a butcher like his father.<\/p>\n

\"'Gabin'\"<\/p>\n

‘Gabin’<\/p>\n

\u201cTorn between family loyalty and a desire to break free, his dreams lie elsewhere,\u201d notes as synopsis, \u201cto train a contest cow, to become a dog breeder, and to save his mother\u2019s farm from financial ruin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The filmmaker hails from the same region of Artois as his protagonist, a place he describes as \u201ca forgotten land, its landscapes often washed in a pale and unsettling light.\u201d Voiseux writes in a director\u2019s statement, \u201cMy relationship with this region has always been complex. As a child, I saw it as bleak and austere. Only much later did I begin to see it as a genuine film set, its inhabitants as living, novelistic characters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Director<\/p>\n

Director Maxence Voiseux<\/p>\n

Voiseux originally got to know the Jourdel family in 2014 while working on his short film Des hommes et des b\u00eates (Of Men and Beasts). He later made a mid-length documentary about Gabin\u2019s father and siblings called Les H\u00e9ritiers (The Heirs), before deciding to dedicate a feature length film to Gabin\u2019s progress toward adulthood.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe film takes place between his 8th and 18th birthdays, but I had shot the first sequences during The Heirs,\u201d Voiseux explained in an interview with journalist Manon Marcillat. \u201cSo, when we started filming Gabin, he was eleven years old. The film was never conceived as an immersion; I always approached it knowing there would be ellipses because I wanted Gabin to be able to grow up \u2018outside\u2019 the film. I went there three to six times a year and filmed for a solid week. If you set aside the break I had to take because of Covid, we shot for about a hundred days in total.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"'Gabin'\"<\/p>\n

‘Gabin’<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a subtlety to the director\u2019s approach, one he describes as \u201cnarrative, non-explanatory cinema.\u201d He added in his interview with Marcillat, \u201cYou have to find the balance to give the viewer enough elements to understand what is at stake, without over-emphasizing things, and that can come down to a word, a look, a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gabin is written and directed by Maxence Voiseux, and produced by C\u00e9cile Lestrade and Elise Hug. Cinematography is by Fran\u00e7ois Chambe and Martin Roux. Pascale Hannoyer and Natali Barrey edited the film. The music is composed by Nicolas Rabaeus.<\/p>\n

Watch the trailer for Gabin above.<\/p>\n

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