Jean-Marc Talbot

Short stop motion animation film based upon the work of Pierre Corneille.

William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Reunion between both men creates one thousand memories: always so collusive, they become fast inseparable, living again, the space of moment, their young years… Only Elizabeth, wife of William, who has just lost her father, does not share their cheerfulness.

For 30 years, Peanuts, with a bunch of roses, has been wandering in Rouen at night.Through the city, he is in search for "Memoirs", a souvenir notebook written by his deceased friend. He was born in a disappeared city, Rouen, more precisely in the area of Martainville, between poverty and knife fighting.

Set against the background of the French Revolution and based on Victor Hugo's classic novel this is the story of Jean Valjean who is sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread and is released after nineteen years. He meets and cares for a beautiful but poverty-stricken young girl named Fantine who has daughter Cosette. After Fantine's death Valjean brings Cosette up but he is haunted by Javert - a policeman whose search for Valjean has become an obsession.