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It All Starts Today

It All Starts Today

1999, Movie, 1h 57min

Director Bertrand Tavernier brings a vivid social realism and rich humanism to this stirring study of one man fighting against the odds to make a difference. Daniel Lefebvre (Philippe Torreton) is a nursery school teacher in a depressed mining town in the north of France that has faced hard times ever since the mines closed. Witnessing the struggles of his poverty-stricken students and their parents and increasingly frustrated by an ineffectual bureaucratic system, Daniel boldly resolves to take matters into his own hands to improve his community.

Country: France

Director:

Bertrand Tavernier

Cast:

Emmanuelle Bercot,

Philippe Torreton,

Christine Citti

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7.0

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Critic David Parkinson

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6

...it's the director's socialist humanism as much as the roll call of credible incidents, that makes this episodic drama so effective.

Read full review at Empire

Critic William Thomas

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6

...[a] Ken Loach-style insight into toiling at the chalk face, which will have teachers everywhere applauding its authenticity.

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Critic Jesper Vestergaard

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8

Det er en yderst kritisk film, der taler stærkt og direkte til sit publikum...

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