‘Orange-Flavoured Wedding’ Is All About Family and “How Emotions Flow Between Its Members,” Says Christophe Honoré (Exclusive Cannes Clip)

Family can be loving, annoying, complicated – and it can be all of the above, all at the same time. And it can leave you with trauma. French writer-director Christophe Honoré’s (Marcello Mio, The Beloved) new film, Orange-Flavoured Wedding (Mariage au goût d’orange), is taking us back in time to explore a French family in all its dimensions.

And it does so with an ensemble cast full of established and rising French names. Adèle Exarchopoulos, Malou Khebizi, Paul Kircher, Vincent Lacoste, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Alban Lenoir, Myriem Akheddiou and Noée Abita are among the stars of the movie. The cast also includes Xavier Lacaille, Saadia Bentaïeb, Victoire Du Bois, Jules Sagot, Joann Brezot, Prune Bozo, Ji-Min Park and Andranic Manet.

“The Puig family has seven children. And today is the wedding of the youngest: Jacques. It is March 1978 in the suburbs of Nantes. The father is not attending the wedding; he has been banished from the family. The brothers and sisters, however, are all there, happy to be reunited. Jacques is marrying Martine. For the two of them, it’s a marriage of love. But can love heal the wounds of childhood?

Orange-Flavoured Wedding, for which THR can now debut an exclusive clip, world premieres in the Cannes Film Festival‘s Cannes Premiere program on Wednesday, May 20.