Since 27 February, Léonor Serraille — who made an impression in Cannes with her feature films Montparnasse Bienvenüe [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Léonor Serraille
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intervista: Léonor Serraille
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intervista: Jean-Paul Civeyrac
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intervista: Olivier Wotling
scheda series] and this year in cinemas in La récréation de juillet, Les truites and Le roman de Jim), Pascal Rénéric (Beating Sun [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Céline Sciamma
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Written by the director, the script centres on 26-year-old Ari, who finally passes his teaching exam. Nine months later, working as a trainee school teacher in a nursery school in Lille, he suffers a nervous breakdown in the middle of class, despite the support of school director Blanche. He finds himself in hospital and a doctor gives him sick leave. His father, angered by seeing him fail, throws him out of the family home he’d never left. Febrile and shaken, plagued with strange visions, Ari wanders through the city and begins, without meaning to, a series of reunions… 

Produced for Arte France by Grégoire Debailly (2019 Producer on the Move 2019 at the European Film Promotion) for Geko Films and by Sandra Fonseca for Blue Monday Productions, this fiction film is the third part in a collection that began with All Hands on Deck [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Guillaume Brac
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intervista: Léa Fehner
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intervista: Mikhaël Hers
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