CENT MÈTRES PAPILLON

This is the story of Lari, a young swimmer who, like his idol Michael Phelps, dreams of becoming a champion.
Learning to somersault, discovering the glide, training and its violence, competition and the strangeness of its rituals, the races, the defeats, the questioning?

Maxime Taffanel, a former top-level swimmer turned actor, has experienced it all: the fear of the stopwatch, of failure, the loss of meaning. His acting text draws on his experience as a sportsman.

Cent Mètres Papillon...