L'école buissonnière

L'école buissonnière (English: Skip School and School of Life, Russian: 'Как прогулять школу с пользой') is a 2017 French comedy-drama film directed by Nicolas Vanier.

L'école buissonnière
Directed byNicolas Vanier
Produced byClément Miserez
Matthieu Warter
StarringJean Scandel
François Cluzet
Éric Elmosnino
Valérie Karsenti
François Berléand
CinematographyÉric Guichard
Edited byRaphaele Urtin
Music byArmand Amar
Production
company
Radar Films
Distributed byStudioCanal
Release date
  • 11 October 2017 (2017-10-11)
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$8.5 million[1]
Box office$14.9 million[2]

Plot

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Alongside Totoche, Paul will make a school out of life, out of nature's secrets, and learn to clean fish and everything there is to know about game, mushrooms, and plants.

1927. Paul, a boy orphaned during the WWI, comes to the Count of Fresnaye's estate to live with a foster family: Célestine, a maid at the manor, and her husband Borel, the gamekeeper. Left mostly to himself, and warned against showing up at the castle, because the Count doesn't tolerate children, Paul begins to explore the surrounding wilderness. He becomes friend with Totoche, a notorious poacher, who teaches him woodcraft. Borel is obsessed with catching Totoche, and Paul becomes mingled in the complicated relationship between Totoche, Borel and Célestine. Paul begins to suspect that his parents' connection to the locality is deeper than he was told. Meanwhile, Paul makes acquaintance with the Count, who warms up to the boy as he sees his interest in the outdoors. As they examine the Count's red deer trophy collection, the boy mentions he saw a deer with even bigger antlers in the Count's woods. In the course of the hunt after the deer the Count suffers a bad fall from a horse. The estate is about to pass to the Count's no-good son, a blatant egoist with property development ideas that would ruin the environment. But a dark family secret turns out to be a blessing.

Cast

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Director and lead actors at a premiere, October 2017.

Production

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Filming for the movie began on 19 September 2016 in Sologne, Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, Beaugency and La Ferté-Saint-Cyr and wrapped up on 25 November in the same year.[4][5][needs update]

References

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  1. ^ "Nicolas Vanier peaufine son tournage en Sologne - 13/08/2016 - La Nouvelle République Loir-et-Cher". Lanouvellerepublique.fr (in French). 13 August 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  2. ^ "L'école buissonnière". www.boxofficemojo.com.
  3. ^ Neilz, Claire (13 August 2016). "Nicolas Vanier peaufine son tournage en Sologne". La Nouvelle Republique (in French). La Nouvelle Republique. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2016. Le protagoniste reste le jeune Paul, orphelin, incarné par Solal de Montalivet Jean Scandel.
  4. ^ "François Cluzet et Eric Elmosnino font L'école buissonnière pour Nicolas Vanier". Allocine.fr. 9 September 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Les Solognots font l'école buissonnière sur le nouveau film de Nicolas Vanier - La Ferté-Saint-Cyr (41220) - La République du Centre". Larep.fr. 13 February 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
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