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Year of Production 2017

School of Life

English title: School of Life
Original title: École buissonnière, L'
German title: Paul und die Schule des Lebens
France, 2017

Director: Vanier, Nicolas
Production company: Radar Films
Co-producers: Studiocanal
Age recommendation: 6 years and up
Length: 116 min.
Film genre: Feature film

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 soverign 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.

The Count tolerates poachers on his estate, but Borel relentlessly hunts them down, most especially, Totoche, the most wily and elusive among them.

In the heart of a fairytale Sologne, alongside Totoche, Paul will learn about life, and also about the forest and its secrets. An even heavier secret weighs down the estate, because Paul has not happened to come there by accident...

Festivals:
Shanghai IFF 2018, Zero Plus CFF Tyumen/Russia 2020 (awarded)

World sales address/es:
Studiocanal ( F)

Sold to:
Studiocanal ( F)
Studiocanal (DE)
Frenetic (CH)
Athena (BE)