President of Cinéroman 2023, Alex Lutz returns to tell us how he made Nicolas Mathieu’s universe pass from the page on the screen: choose a voice, decide what we keep, what we dare to move. Certitudes, dangers, enthusiasms and doubts: how to lead Mélanie Thierry and Bastien Bouillon, dialogue with the author, and hold the course between fidelity and invention to make Connemara born.