![]() Eventually he learns that his family is Jewish. François knows that his parents met sometime around the war, and he imagines their courtship and marriage in the shadow of atrocities which nobody talks about any more. Simon is the big secret, but the discovery opens the door to further revelations and deeper enigmas. Only gradually does he learn of his parents' tragic past and that he had a sibling – a half-brother named Simon, his father's first son. For a while, he dreams of a stronger, fitter, more charismatic older brother to compensate for his own feelings of inadequacy. He is the skinny, sickly son of two marvelously athletic parents, Tania ( Cécile de France) and Maxime ( Patrick Bruel). François Grimbert (played as a young boy by Valentin Vigourt and as an adult by Mathieu Amalric) grows up in Paris in the 1950s. The film follows Maxime Nathan and his family in France during the years before and after World War II.
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