I liked the subject a great deal. It's a love story that takes place during the carnival in Dunkirk, a town that has an amazingly popular carnival, unique in France. Thomas Vincent had already made two shorts. Our work together on "Karnaval" led to true friendship. If producing a film also produces another friend, so much the better. I like the film enormously, and people who have already seen it have given it a good reception. If features a great young actress, Sylvie Testud. She's already well known in Germany, though not in France. But I predict she'll have a great future here, too. Being a producer means discovering talent - by which I also mean the other two actors, Clovis Cornillac, who is better known in the legitimate theater, and Amar Ben Abdellah, who hadn't ever acted in a film. Together they make an extraordinary trio. I've got a soft spot for this film because we really did a good job on the casting. We really worked to find the right people, took our time, thought about each role free from financial pressures.

(Alain Rozanes - producer)