During school holidays, Danièle (Bernadette Lafont), a retired schoolteacher in her sixties, takes her grandchildren to stay with their father, who is divorced from Danièle’s daughter. But this time the father’s delay in returning from a business trip allows her to extend her stay and enjoy the company of her two grandchildren – a trusting young boy and a teenage girl going through the first angry throes of rebellion – for longer than usual. She takes them out for the day but transforms the outing into an impromptu vacation that begins to look more and more like a kidnapping.
“Given the flip, sentimental treatment that older actors usually have to settle for in English-language cinema, the plot of Olivier Peyon’s film may initially sound alarm bells but the subtlety and seriousness of the best French cinema makes Les Petites Vacances a road movie-cum-psychological drama of a very trenchant kind. As the children’s parents go through their own traumas, Danièle’s decision to go AWOL with the kids leads them on an odyssey into the Swiss mountains – a journey during which family relations, and her own troubled soul, are tested to the limit. Poignant, sometimes nerve-racking and utterly engrossing, Les Petites Vacances is a superbly
controlled drama, and a terrific showcase for veteran actress Bernadette Lafont, who began her career as a teenager at the dawn of the French New Wave in Truffaut’s 1957 short Les Mistons. This could be her finest role yet – an ambivalent, troubled character who gradually reveals her complexity. A warm but no-nonsense appearance by veteran Claude Brasseur adds to the pleasure.” – Jonathan Romney, London Film Festival Programme.
Olivier Peyon (born Paris region, 1969) grew up in Nantes and after studying Economics there decided to return to Paris to work as a production assistant on films for Idrissa Ouedraogo. While working at the Centre National de la Cinématographie he was invited to take up French translation and subtitling work on English language films. He has completed five short films, some of which have won awards at major festivals, including Promis, Juré (96), Jingle Bells (97), Claquage après étirements (00) and À tes amours (01). Les Petits Vacances (06) is his first feature as writer- director.
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