A Serious Profession: “Real Immersion in the Everyday Life of Teachers” with Adele Exarchopoulos and Vincent Lacoste

A Serious Profession: “Real Immersion in the Everyday Life of Teachers” with Adele Exarchopoulos and Vincent Lacoste

What is it about?

returned to school. A new school year at the college featuring Pierre, Meryem, Fouad, Sophie, Sandrine, Alix and Sofiane, a group of dedicated and united teachers.

They are joined by Benjamin, a young substitute teacher who has no experience and quickly encounters the difficulties of the profession. Through contact with them, he discovers how much the passion for teaching remains alive in a weakened institution.

After dedicating three feature films, a series and a book to the medical world, Thomas Lilt tackles a new subject, the learning environment. Serious work at the beginning of the school year immerses us in the institution. We focus on some of the teachers played by Louise Bourgoin, Francois Clouzet, William Lebgill, but also Adele Exarchopoulos and Vincent Lacoste, whom we met to talk about the film.

In the video above, they reminisce about school for us. They also tell us what distinguishes the new film created on this topic from the rest. “It is a real immersion into the daily lives of teachers, both in their privacy and in the very collective side of the school. I think this is a broader film, which is about passion, calling

Both emphasize the fact that there is a real range of different teachers that allow “A real map of the teaching profession“.

There are real questions, without any moralism. “ They explain. “We see teachers’ fears. is a form of realism. Teachers who watch the film will find something from their daily life and remain romantic.

Thomas Lilty has done a lot of research on this film industry. Before writing the first line of the script, the filmmaker indicates that he has read and seen as many documents as possible about teaching (mostly testimonials):

I watch TV shows, TV news, community magazines, but I also read blogs, magazines, sociology essays…I gradually immerse myself in the subject. On the other hand, I never get inspiration from works of art.”

Find all the movie releases of the week

A Serious Profession, written and directed by Thomas Lilt, stars Vincent Lacoste, Francois Clouze, Adele Exarchopoulos, Louise Burgoyne, William Lebgill and Lucy Zhang and opens in theaters this Wednesday, September 13.

Source: Allocine

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