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The Teacher

2017 · 106 min

A grounded, gently humorous culture-clash drama that quietly unsettles a comfortable man's certainties.

Overview
Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris. Trapped in a situation where he’s forced to accept a job in a school of a tough underprivileged suburb, he finds himself confronted to his own limits and to the upheaval of his values and certainties.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • education
  • identity
  • morality
  • work
Places
  • school
  • big city
  • suburbs
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism8
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Olivier Ayache-Vidal
Written by
Olivier Ayache-Vidal
Starring
Denis Podalydès, Abdoulaye Diallo, Pauline Huruguen, Alexis Moncorgé, Emmanuel Barrouyer, Léa Drucker, Zineb Triki, Marie Rémond
Cinematography
David Cailley
Runtime
106 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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