Valentine Cadic, director of "Rendez-vous de l'été": "We wanted to explore the vulnerability of being in a place you don't know."

The summer rendezvous not to be missed is the one Valentine Cadic gives us, with the Olympic Games as the backdrop, Paris as the extra, and the joys of the unexpected as the driving force. The 29-year-old filmmaker has made a fantastic first feature film , a summer comedy about the wanderings of an offbeat young woman (Blandine Madec) in a city turned upside down.

What does the film owe to your encounter with the brilliant Blandine Madec, already the heroine of one of your short films?

The initial desire was to make a film that takes place at the time of the Olympic Games in Paris . It's true that having already worked with Blandine has nourished the writing, I immediately imagined the role with her in mind. We met eight or nine years ago, while acting together in a short film ( Que le ciel tombe by Rémi Bassaler), then I went to see her at the theater, where