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Le plus beau métier du monde

  • 1996
  • 1h 45m
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
1.3K
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Le plus beau métier du monde (1996)
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Gerard Depardieu is a new teacher in a lower class school. He has a hard time with a special eighth grade class, and in his building.Gerard Depardieu is a new teacher in a lower class school. He has a hard time with a special eighth grade class, and in his building.Gerard Depardieu is a new teacher in a lower class school. He has a hard time with a special eighth grade class, and in his building.

  • Director
    • Gérard Lauzier
  • Writer
    • Gérard Lauzier
  • Stars
    • Gérard Depardieu
    • Michèle Laroque
    • Souad Amidou
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    5.8/10
    1.3K
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    • Director
      • Gérard Lauzier
    • Writer
      • Gérard Lauzier
    • Stars
      • Gérard Depardieu
      • Michèle Laroque
      • Souad Amidou
    • 3User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Gérard Depardieu
    Gérard Depardieu
    • Laurent Monier
    Michèle Laroque
    Michèle Laroque
    • Hélène Monier
    Souad Amidou
    • Radia Ben Saïd
    Ticky Holgado
    Ticky Holgado
    • Baudouin
    Guy Marchand
    Guy Marchand
    • Gauthier
    Philippe Khorsand
    Philippe Khorsand
    • Le gardien de l'immeuble
    Daniel Prévost
    Daniel Prévost
    • Albert Constantini, le voisin
    Roschdy Zem
    Roschdy Zem
    • Ahmed Raouch
    Mouss Diouf
    Mouss Diouf
    • Momo
    Faisal Attia
    • Nacir
    Prisca Songo
    • Malou Keita
    Ouassini Embarek
    • Mouloud
    Laurent Jaubert
    • Aziz Raouch
    Françoise Christophe
    Françoise Christophe
    • Mme Davant, la mère d'Hélène
    Vincent Solignac
    Vincent Solignac
    • Rivet
    Michel Peyrelon
    • Le commissaire de police
    Gilles Veber
    • Daniel Benichou
    Beata Nilska
    • Madame Nothereau
    • Director
      • Gérard Lauzier
    • Writer
      • Gérard Lauzier
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    • Trivia
      Screenplay inspired by the TV report "Une vie de prof" by Maria Roche, Hervé Chabalier and Stéphane Meunier.
    • Connections
      Features Dragon Ball Z (1996)
    • Soundtracks
      Three Little Birdies Down Beats
      By Ed Simons (as Edmund Simons) and Tom Rowlands (as Thomas Rowlands)

      Performed by The Chemical Brothers (as Chemical Brothers)

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    4/10

    but also one of the hardest...

    With this movie, Gérard Lauzier decided to broach a particularly delicate topic on a comedy tone: difficult suburbs in France. But for me, his movie isn't really successful for two main reasons.

    First, it reminded me a lot of "Dangerous Minds" (1995) starring Michele Pfeiffer. The less we can say is that here, Gérard Depardieu has a lot of common points with the quoted actress and seems to be the hero of a Hollywood screenplay, at a professional level as well as a private level. Concerning the professional level: although, Depardieu looks like a big and strong man it is hard to see him trying to impose discipline on his students and sometimes,I believe that the methods he uses to tame his students aren't really pedagogical. For example, he invites the best elements in his own flat so that they can study in peace! Then, the end turns out to be disappointing because too much conventional. Indeed, he was to take a new post in another school but because he learned to like his students, he decides to stay in his former school.

    Now at the private level. We learn that Depardieu is an estranged husband and he reveals to one of his colleagues that if he chose a tough school it is because he wants to get closer to his children (how new it is!) but he tries to reconcile with his wife. But in the meantime, he also wants to seduce one of his colleagues. These characteristics enable to foresee the main fault of the film...

    And the main fault of the movie is of course, the clichés! In Lauzier's movie, they take the form of a total spreading and they are linked to these suburbs' main problems: racism, racket, tags, violence, academic failure, chador. In short, everything is here! It is also to be noted that a few characters are really caricatured. The perfect example is Daniel Prévost as the racist neighbor.

    These permanent faults end up spoiling the movie. All right, there are funny situations like the birthday sequence (the music used for this scene regularly appears again throughout the movie and it creates quite amusing moments). But because these situations are either too easy too predictable, they can hardly save this movie. All in all, there's few originality in this comedy that exploits properly its ideas but without great surprises.
    • dbdumonteil
    • Aug 3, 2004
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    • Release date
      • March 28, 1997 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • The Best Job in the World
    • Filming locations
      • Collège Pierre de Geyter - 58 Boulevard Marcel Sembat, Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France(as Gainsbourg school, exteriors)
    • Production companies
      • Canal+
      • Capricorne Production
      • Cofimage 7
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $23,862
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $23,862
      • Mar 30, 1997
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 45 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby

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