Filmmaker Statement

Chevalier is a project that I have been carrying for almost 5 years, since the first months of my son's life when I was walking with him in a pushchair in the forest. That's when I discovered this incredible setting, a campsite overlooked by this noisy, violent motorway... Very quickly, an embryo of a story came to me. It was a new approach for me as a scriptwriter and director who first wrote stories and then looked for the places to embody them. This time, it was the place that spoke to me and inspired me. This film is an ode to children, to their ability to overcome the horrors of life, to their strength of action and to their will and desire to live. This film also speaks of a subject that is dear to me, violence against women in all its forms, whether physical, with Patricia being violently beaten by Emma's father from the very first minutes, or psychological, with Emma, alone, having to feed herself and manage to survive. By saving Patricia, Emma manages to save herself. Her chivalrous gesture, for the sake of others, will finally get her out of the hole in which life and her father had trapped her.