52′, directed by Bruno Evenou.
Co-produced by France Télévisions.
With the support of the CNC.
Yesterday, petanque was a corny and proletarian sport, but in recent years it has become a very popular and global discipline.
This game, born a little by chance on a small bowling green in La Ciotat, has become in a little more than a century a terribly trendy global phenomenon.
The film proposes to go in search of those who practice pétanque today, whether they are French, Malagasy or American, by a tour of the horizon leading us from the picturesque south of the Mediterranean to Paris, Lyon and Los Angeles.
Everywhere, behind each game of pétanque, the scene of a real urban theater is played. It favors human relationships, abolishes social barriers, and offers a space where the elite can cohabit with “everyone else”.
Global, cosmopolitan, legendary, relaxed, friendly, ultra-trendy, multicultural, therapeutic, even urban and naturist, pétanque can be declined in any way and gathers around cultural, collective and identity values.