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Deviens génial

2026 · 92 min

A light, chaotic French comedy about a well-meaning teacher stumbling through a school trip, warm and silly with a soft father-daughter heart.

Directed by
Léo Grandperret
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Manu Payet, Elisa Murphy, Melha Bedia
Overview
Mathias is a teacher and has finally been transferred to his daughter’s middle school. But no sooner has he arrived than he learns that his German class is being canceled due to a lack of students. He then decides to organize a trip to Germany to motivate the teens to choose the language, and to fund it, he turns to Iris, the head of the local sister city committee. The catch is that Mathias is a Spanish teacher. Between Mathias, who doesn’t speak a word of German, the frustrated teens, and an irrational Iris, the school trip is shaping up to be utter chaos. Yet nothing will stop him from becoming the father his daughter no longer expects… and to achieve his goal, he’ll have to become awesome!

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Directed by
Léo Grandperret
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Manu Payet, Elisa Murphy, Melha Bedia
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • parenthood
  • family
  • education
  • identity
  • ambition
Places
  • school
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour7
Realism7
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Léo Grandperret
Written by
Sébastien Mounier, Léo Grandperret
Starring
Manu Payet, Elisa Murphy, Melha Bedia, Thomas Krutmann, Julia Stolba, Roxan Bangalter, Marie-Julie Baup, Luzian Gupta
Cinematography
Quentin de Lamarzelle
Runtime
92 min
Country
France
Languages
French, German

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