A teacher has been hired by a school that has ‘difficult’ children. Only when he comes in for the first day does he realise how difficult they can be.
The film actually starts off with a French musician (the actor ‘Jacques Perrin‘, also in Cinema Paradiso) in the US being told that there is some news about his mother. When he goes back to France, a diary sets the film back to when the character was back in school.
The humour in this film is fantastic, the drama, just as good. The strict headmaster is a character you love to hate, and the new teacher, you feel is definitely a ‘good guy’.
It’s a really good film, definitely worth watching.
I give it 8/10