Day Off

Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, twenty or so carefree and boisterous kids between the ages of three and eleven take advantage of this day to make their parents go crazy. Emma, 9 years old and naturally romantic, decides that Roland, the little boy she met in the street, is unhappy and persuades her friends to adopt him. Victoria spends the day with Martin Socoa, an often distant father whom she learns to love. There are also Muriel, Bruno, Colette and Henri who take off and create panic in their parents' home, while Marylin lives the founding drama of her childhood with a mother of an unreal sweetness. Throughout these little stories, we realize that the world of children has its own logic, totally different from that of adults.

Vincent Lindon

(Martin Socoa)

Alessandra Martines

(Madame Socoa)

Victoria Lafaurie

(Victoria)

Catherine Frot

(Sophie)

Olivier Gourmet

(Denis Pelloutier)

Anne Le Ny

(Marie Pelloutier)

Kelly Acoca

(Mathilde)

Isabelle Carré

(Antonella Lorca)

Clara Navarro

(Marylin)

Nathalie Lafaurie

(Maryvonne)

Isabelle Candelier

(Vitalie Rambaud)

Armelle

(Marie-Thérèse, Vitalie's sister)

Marie Helffer

(Sarah)

Emma Picoron

(Emma)

Maxime Desormières

(Maxime)

Elodie Velho

(Noémie)

Mathilde Hochet

(France)

Christian Morin

(Agenore Esposito)

Armonie Sanders

(Muriel)

Katia Tchenko

(Huguette Lepange)

Roger Trapp

(Grand-Pré)

Reinhardt Wagner

(Tired teacher)

Maurice Risch

(Grogneau)

Luis Rego

(Mercier)

Hervé Pierre

(Socoa's lawyer)

Pierre Banderet

(Prosecutor Vivien)

Nicole Turpin

(Mrs Vivien)

Ondine Dupont

(Colette)

Clément Thomas

(policeman)

Frédéric Duru

(policeman)

Amar Belhadi

(Mr Laroume)

Pascale Belhadi

(Mrs Laroume)

Samia Belhadi

(Samia)

Sabrina Belhadi

(Sabrina)

Mehdi Belhadi

(Saïd)

Quentin Baillot

(Patrick, Saïd's friend)

Corinne Corson

(Isabelle's mother)

Sophie Lévêque

(Isabelle)

Khayem Malek

(Poker friend)

Jean Hernandez

(poker friend)

Léo Douek

(poker friend)

Roland Ascer

(poker friend)

Olivier Chiavassa

(poker friend)

Stéphane Levy

(poker friend)

Daniel Leibovitz

(PMU friend)

Bernard Bourdon

(PMU friend)

Albert Dray

(Dédé)

Michel Champetier

(Chatel)

Antoine Chamaillard

(Henry Chatel)

Paul Minthe

(supermarket manager)

Jean-Pierre Payrat

(Mr Ingarra)

Loredana Lanciano

(Mrs Ingarra)

Loïs Di Qual

(Bruno Ingarra)

André Thorent

(Agency director)

Thérèse Nivet

(Agency secretary)

Nicole Guihéneuf

(Nicole)

François Le Cars

(Frank, the dealer)

Laurence Colin

(Frank's wife)

Gaëlle Pascoët

(singing teacher)

Marie Le Corf

(piano player)

Yvonne Clavreul

(a passerby)

Daniel Garandeau

(A passerby)

Jean-Claude Caillard

(A passerby)

Serge Plat

(beggar)

Frédéric Louineau

(Mr Le Gourvellec)

Sarah Reyjausse

(Mrs Le Gourvellec)

Augustin Hochet

(Augustin)

Danny Lardière

(train controller)

Gilles Tartrou

(Cat man)

Dominique Paul-Boncourt

(fashion show organizer)

Florence Michelle

(receptionist)

Guy Boucard

(Garage mechanic)

Alexandre Lafaurie

(train doctor)

Jean-Claude Muraillon

(angry passenger)

Damien Passenay

(soldier on leave)

Olivier Giraudeau

(nurse rugbyman)

Vincent Denis

(Nurse rugbyman)

Gérard Trégouet

(controller)

Mario Joseph

(field owner)