"The Last Hammer Blow" restores hope in future

Marrakech - Halfway between music and filmmaking, "The Last Hammer Bash" by the French film director Alix Delaporte, screened Saturday as part of the official competition of the 14th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival, teaches a lesson in courage that restores hope in the future. Through this touching story in which the young hero Victor (Roman Paul), is always moving between a mother with cancer and an absent father while immersed in his musical universe, football dreams and uncertain first love stories, Alix Delaporte succeeded brilliantly in reconstructing the cycle of life with its good moments, but also with the most difficult times that are far from being inevitable as long as you want to take control of your own destiny, said the filmmaker.

"Do not let go," "Do not give up," these are the credos that the film director wanted to defend using the innocent voice of this 13 year old boy at a crucial time of his development, transitioning towards the adulthood. He will have to take the first important decisions which may shape his future. But there is a dilemma, of the most difficult kind: his coach pushes him to a career in football, but how to leave his mother's side (Clotilde Hesme), while she suffers from cancer and had to stop working? The day Nadia, his mother, tells him that they must leave their home on the beach, Victor is concerned for his mother as he feels that she is hiding something.

He is also worried about his new relationship with Luna, the Spanish neighbor. His relationship with his father, whom he did not know at the beginning of the film, is equally problematic. They meet for the first time while the father Samuel Rovinsky (Grégory Gadebois), a famous orchestra conductor, had to lead a concert at the Opera of Montpellier about the 6th symphony of Mahler.