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20 and a scooter

"20 and a scooter" is a comedy that retraces over a day the ride of a boy who celebrates his birthday as he can by buying a used scooter which should be at the scrap heap rather than on the road.

  • Tanguy Malaterre
    Director
  • Tanguy Malaterre
    Writer
  • Marie Maneci Production Escudier
    Producer
    Purge
  • Frédéric Cherboeuf
    Key Cast
    ""The employment advisor""
  • Clara Baumzecer
    Key Cast
    ""Mathilde""
  • Julien Gaspar-Oliveri
    Key Cast
    ""The seller""
  • Grétel Delattre
    Key Cast
    ""The mother""
  • Tanguy Malaterre
    Key Cast
    ""Will""
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    20 ans et un scooter
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    17 minutes 34 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 8, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    4,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, Black Magic
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Conservatoire Gabriel Fauré
Director Biography - Tanguy Malaterre

Actor, photographer, and director, Tanguy Malaterre began his theater training after high school at the Cours Florent and Drama Conservatory of the 5th Arrondissement of Paris while simultaneously pursuing a degree in Public Law and Political Science.
In 2022, he was selected for the Olga Horstig Prize, directed by Julien Kosselek at the Athénée Louis Jouvet Theater. In 2024, he performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens in "A Streetcar Named Desire," directed by Pauline Susini, while also directing his first short film, "20 and a Scooter".

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Director Statement

STATEMENT OF INTENT FOR "20 AND A SCOOTER"

Will is a 20-year-old young man celebrating his birthday. Officially considered an adult, he hasn't yet transitioned into the adult world. Since his father passed away a little over a year ago, Will decides to treat himself on his birthday by buying a scooter and pursuing a girl he thinks he loves.

This short film, which I estimate to be around 24 minutes long, is a comedy set over the course of a single day—an important day in this young man’s life where he hopes to regain some control over his life. Impulsive and completely lost in social interactions and administrative matters, Will tries to play the adult, much like everyone else, but for him, everything seems off.

Despite this, Will is determined. With his scooter, he moves forward, unlike his life, which is stuck and hindered. By "hindered," I mean that this character lacks particular goals, ambitions, and only reacts to what happens in the moment, without any long-term perspective or plans. His behavior is almost like that of a reptile seeking the warmth of a sunlit tile.

Thus, this film questions adulthood and our ways of being and embracing the world around us. It focuses on the different sensitivities encountered by this young man: the Pôle Emploi advisor, Mathilde who is perfectly aware and embedded in her milieu, and finally his mother, who is in crisis and trying to regain a sense of teenage carefree-ness while Mathilde seeks to escape it.

I wrote with a focus on crisis—the crisis of being in your twenties, dealing with grief, the inability to act, and facing reality. But also on relationships that don’t progress, relationships blocked at their essence because important words have remained stuck and repressed for too long. I want to film beings who are buzzing, trapped deep within themselves.

I’m looking for a simple aesthetic that serves the actors and the reality, capturing a story but also a city at a certain time of year. I have always been passionate about films that focus on the intimate in a nearly documentary style but don’t forget the city, the time, the milieu that situates these intimacies, with Cléo from 5 to 7 being a major inspiration.

The idea is not to anchor in a pseudo-realistic world but as we experience it daily: surreal, silly, furious, dreamed, unpredictable. These characters seek to mend the silences that slumber within them; that’s the most important thing.

Keywords: HUMOR, TENDERNESS, FOOLISHNESS, SPEED.