Review of Le maître d'école

As usual, a Coluche movie is for me a guaranteed fun moment as it happens in the 80s thus the best period in France and also because Coluche was such a gifted and role model actor! Here this one ranks among his best for two reasons: 1) Coluche has the best opportunity to show his really big heart: as a school teacher, he listens to his pupils, he is full of compassion for them; he helps everyone: his boss, his colleagues,… When you know that he was the single one rich artist to put his money and time to help the poor, you understand easily watching this movie where he draws such love and energy and why he miss us so much as there is not a single french celebrity who follows his path!!! 2) This movie is a condensed vision of what France was in the 80s: a cool place, with open debates, a old school administration with values, families working and kids respectful. Now all this balance has been exploded and being a teacher now is like being a soldier! I really like the idea that was supported in the movie that kids must be taught how to think by themselves! Now this fundamental principle of free citizens have been totally erased! However as this school happened as the same time as mine, this surely explains why this movie can reverb on me like that because I'm just one of this thousand kids who have been enlightened like this!