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School of Life

School of Life

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 22, 2017

Runtime

1h 56m

Genres

Drama, Comedy, Family

User Score

74%

Original Title

L'École buissonnière

Production Companies

StudioCanal, Radar Films, France 2 Cinéma

Director

Nicolas Vanier

Description

Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful country woman, Célestine, and her husband, Borel, the rather stiff gamekeeper of a vast estate in Sologne, the city child, recalcitrant and stubborn, arrives in a mysterious and disturbing world, that of a sovereign and wild region. The huge forest, misty ponds, heaths, and fields all belong to the Count de la Fresnaye, an elderly taciturn man who lives alone in his manor.