A promise made to his daughter forces Jean-Gabriel to find a way to get his whole family into winter sports. The First Star is airing on 6ter Tuesday, October 27, 2026 at 10:15 PM. Lucien Jean-Baptiste directs this 2009 comedy and stars as the family patriarch.
Jean-Gabriel ekes out a living with odd jobs and hadn’t budgeted this vacation. This time, his wife is counting on him to come through. The trip he has to arrange becomes the driving force of the story, with Anne Consigny in the role of his wife and Firmine Richard as his mother.
The film brings three generations together for a ski trip, marking a new milestone in Lucien Jean-Baptiste’s career, who both directs and plays the central character here. Also discover our picks of family comedies and of popular French comedies.
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