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Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
School Life is as charming, intimate and warm-hearted an observational documentary as you'd ever want to see.
School Life (La Vie Scolaire)
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- France
- 2019
- · 111m
Director
Mehdi Idir
Cast
Zita Hanrot,
Liam Pierron,
Soufiane Guerrab,
Moussa Mansaly,
Alban Ivanov
Genre
Drama,
Comedy
Samia, a novice teacher, arrives from the French countryside to work at a middle school in the troubled Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis. There, she finds both the predictable problems of discipline and the social and economic realities that afflict the local area, but also the incredible vitality and humor, both of the students and of her team of supervisors.
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75
San Francisco Chronicle by G. Allen Johnson
It’s a quiet film that almost slips by without notice.
75
Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
In tone, School Life feels like a recruiting film for prospective students. It isn’t exactly profound, except perhaps in the way it makes a case for the theory that happiness comes first, and then learning.
75
RogerEbert.com by Sheila O'Malley
It is a celebration of these two eccentric and devoted teachers (and, by extension, teachers everywhere). We see them at work, we see them at rest, we see them kneeling by an open window smoking, wondering what they would ever do with themselves if they weren't doing this?
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