I remember…
Seven years ago, I sat down for dinner with
@bernardmagrez and Stephane Reynaud at the George V in Paris. The idea was to explore a documentary about the empire Magrez had built, vineyard by vineyard, dream by dream.
What I encountered that evening was a man of steel.
A commanding presence. Cold, precise, untouchable.
The dinner went on for hours.. six, maybe seven.
And somewhere between the main course and the final sip of wine, something cracked. Just enough for a glimpse.
Behind the armor of the tycoon, I caught sight of a man who still carried the wounds of a child.
A man who had risen without privilege. Who had inherited nothing.
Who had spent a lifetime building. Building to forget, perhaps, or to prove something, or to create a world where no one else would ever make him feel small again.
And yet…
This same man had dedicated himself to others.
To orphans. To the forgotten. To street artists with no walls to paint on.
To those, like him, who started with nothing.
And then, a more private story emerged. Quiet, but consuming.
How do you pass on everything you’ve built…
to children who didn’t have to fight for it?
How do you hand over a legacy, when everything you are was forged in the absence of one?
That paradox, the self-made man who becomes a father, that’s where the story truly begins.
🎥 After five years of filming, the documentary will finally be released on September 23rd on France Télévisions.
Directed by Stéphane Reynaud, Alexandre Donot, and Alexandre Westphal.
Produced by
@hill_valley , alongside
@alice_cnt_ my creative partner and executive producer, without whom none of this would have come to life.
This film is not just about wine, or wealth, or legacy.
It’s about what we inherit despite ourselves.
And what it takes to break a cycle.
Sometimes, filming a man is another way of helping him come home.
To himself.
And maybe… to those he loves.
