Remi, Nobody's Boy

Remi, Nobody's Boy (Rémi sans famille, 2018) is a French family adventure you can watch online on iFILM. A ten-year-old is taken from his adoptive mother and handed to a wandering musician, and a journey across France begins.

Remi (Maleaume Paquin) grows up an ordinary village boy until he learns the truth about himself: he was adopted. He is given over to the mysterious Signor Vitalis (Daniel Auteuil), a grey-haired street performer who travels the roads of France with a tiny troupe. There's the dog Capi and the little monkey Joli-Coeur for company. Vitalis is stern, but he is the one who teaches Remi to sing, to play to a crowd, and to earn his bread with his own voice. Behind them lie fairs, snowbound passes and strangers' towns; ahead lies the secret of where Remi truly came from.

This is a fresh take on Hector Malot's 1878 classic Sans famille, a novel that raised generations of European children. Antoine Blossier shoots it with old-fashioned care: landscapes, costumes, and the quiet ache of the road. Easy, warm viewing for the whole family. Stream Remi, Nobody's Boy (2018) online on iFILM.