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Rating: - Give your heart to the children
A grim look at what a bureaucratic schooling and social welfare system could not properly accomplish in a this seemingly hopeless situation. Poverty was grinding the community, especially the children into hunger, neglect, despair, and violence. A few dedicated, sensitive teachers did give some hope and quality to the children's lives. This movie gives hope that others can be helped.
Rating: - A tribute to the courage and commitment of teachers
Daniel Lefebvre (Philippe Torreton) is teacher and director of the école maternelle, a pre-school open to children ages 2 to 6 in northern France. In Bernard Tavernier's deeply moving film, It All Starts Today, the children are the stars. Their faces and loving smiles shine through the grimness of their circumstances. Based on the notebooks of Tavernier's son-in-law Dominique Sampiero, a provincial teacher, the film is about the difficulties and challenges of children but is also a tribute to the ... Read More
Rating: - Required Viewing!
Now and then brave directors and producers gather their courage and create a film that carries a profound message and seem to be concerned not about the glitz and glamour of their product, but about the impact it has on its audience. The French film IT ALL STARTS TODAY is such a movie.
Briefly stated, the story deals with a committed kindergarten school teacher/director whose pupils are for the most part from homes of poverty, where obtaining an education is unwillingly pushed into the ... Read More
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