School of Life
(2017)
★ 7.4 KP · 315 votes
Year: 2017
Runtime: 116 min
Country: France
Director: Nicolas Vanier
Cast: Франсуа Клюзе, Jean Scandel, Éric Elmosnino, François Berléand, Valérie Karsenti
Plot
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.