Actress Joséphine de Meaux's feature directing debut. Beforehand, she had broached the same subject in La mélancolie des télésièges (2015), an hour-long documentary for TV channel France 4 where she interviewed ski instructors and Third Star students, evoking the lost paradise of childhood.
As of 2021, the only project co-written by Jeanne Herry which she did not direct herself, being friends with co-writer/director Joséphine de Meaux since the Conservatoire National acting school. Gustave Kervern's character was her idea.
The children Adèle Gillain and Alix Gavoille were discovered through an open casting call, as director Joséphine de Meaux wanted to avoid professional child actors in an effort to obtain more freshness and spontaneity.
Co-writer/director Joséphine de Meaux is a fan of French comedies of the 70s and 80s such as Tout feu tout flamme (1982), L'africain (1983) and My New Partner (1984). She also feels close to the sensitivity of Diane Kurys's work, and admires Pierre Salvadori. For this film, she says she was inspired by independent American comedies including those of Woody Allen, as well as C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) and The Descendants (2011).