Veronica and Her Dunce

Original title: Véronique et son cancre

19581958
18m

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6.4/10

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Short

Comedy

A careless mother hires a young tutor to bring up her son's marks, as bad in mathematics as in French language. The young woman tries to teach the boy the easiest things in the curriculum, a... Read allA careless mother hires a young tutor to bring up her son's marks, as bad in mathematics as in French language. The young woman tries to teach the boy the easiest things in the curriculum, as well as some manners. She fails, faced with a puzzling logic in the boys' answers, and h... Read allA careless mother hires a young tutor to bring up her son's marks, as bad in mathematics as in French language. The young woman tries to teach the boy the easiest things in the curriculum, as well as some manners. She fails, faced with a puzzling logic in the boys' answers, and her tight new shoes. Alone at last, the boy picks up his rubber ball - to sleep on it.

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A careless mother hires a young tutor to bring up her son's marks, as bad in mathematics as in French language. The young woman tries to teach the boy the easiest things in the curriculum, as well as some manners. She fails, faced with a puzzling logic in the boys' answers, and her tight new shoes. Alone at last, the boy picks up his rubber ball - to sleep on it. —Artemis-9

tutor

nouvelle vague

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According to the film director, the dialogs were based, and sometimes actually sentences taken from real teachers and students' conversations.

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Followed by Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick (1959)

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7/10

I'm not sure he was a dunce

The French short film Véronique et son cancre (1958) was shown in the U.S. with the translated title Véronique and her Dunce. It was written and directed by Éric Rohmer.

Nicole Berger stars as Véronique, who has been hired to tutor a young boy (portrayed by Alain Delrieu). I don't think the boy was a dunce. I think that he didn't care about school, and he would have needed a really talented tutor to engage him in his schoolwork.

Unfortunately, Véronique doesn't appear to be that person. She wasn't skilled enough to arouse any academic interest in the boy, and she acted ill at ease as a tutor. Not a good combination.

We saw this film as a special feature in the Criterion Collection version of Rohmer's Love in the Afternoon. The short has an anemic IMDb rating of 6.7. I thought that was about right and rated it 7.

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