School of Life poster
Director Nicolas Vanier
Writer Nicolas Vanier, Jérôme Tonnerre

School of Life

Original Title: L'École buissonnière

Release Date: 2017-02-22

Duration: 116 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Affif Ben Badra
    Leader of the gypsies
  • François Cluzet
    Totoche
  • Eric Elmosnino
    Borel
  • François Berléand
    Count Louis Fernand de La Fresnaye
  • Carolina Jurczak
    Florence
  • Urbain Cancelier
    Lucien
  • Laurent Gerra
    Gendarme
  • Thomas Durand
    Bertrand
  • Jean Scandel
    Paul Caradec
  • Murielle Huet des Aunay
    Montaine