{"id":1198,"date":"2018-02-07T00:22:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T00:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=1198"},"modified":"2026-02-21T03:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:49:23","slug":"elementary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/2022-winners\/awards-2\/elementary\/","title":{"rendered":"ELEMENTARY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ELEMENTARY<\/strong>\/ Primaire<\/em><\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517963046942{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]West Coast Premiere \u2022 Drama, Comedy \u2022 France, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

DCP \u2022 1.85 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 105 min<\/p>\n

Directed by<\/strong>: H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Angel
\nWritten by<\/strong>: H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Angel, Yann Coridian, Agn\u00e8s de Sacy, Olivier Gorce
\nCinematography<\/strong>: Yves Angelo
\nFilm Editing<\/strong>: Sylvie Lager, Yann Dedet
\nOriginal Score<\/strong>: Philippe Miller
\nProduced by<\/strong>: H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cases (Lionceau Films), StudioCanal, France 2 Cin\u00e9ma
\nCast<\/strong>: Sara Forestier (Florence Mautret), Vincent Elbaz (Mathieu), Patrick d’Assum\u00e7ao (M. Sabatier), Guilaine Londez (Ms Duru), Olivia C\u00f4te (Marl\u00e8ne Peillard), Lucie Desclozeaux (Laure)
\nInternational Sales<\/strong>: StudioCanal<\/p>\n

This earnest schoolyard drama probes the moral and ethical dilemmas a teacher faces when emotional entanglements put her on a collision course with her professional responsibilities. For Florence, teaching isn\u2019t a job, it\u2019s a calling. She is so devoted to her students that she sometimes forgets that she is a divorced mother with a son of her own for which to care. When Florence encounters Sacha, an angry and emotionally abandoned child, her protective instincts take over, and she makes it her mission to save him from both an abusive mother as well as the institutional indifference of foster care. But the teacher is forced to learn a thing or two when she meets Mathieu, the ex-boyfriend of Sacha\u2019s mother. Impetuous, emotional, live-for-the-moment Mathieu may not be the best father figure for young Sacha, but those same traits make him romantically irresistible to Florence. Sara Forestier (Suzanne<\/em>\u00a0COLCOA 2014), whose star has steadily ascended since her C\u00e9sar-winning turn in\u00a0The Names of Love<\/em>(2010), anchors the classroom scenes with a satisfying slice-of-life performance.<\/p>\n

Although writer\/director\u00a0H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Angel<\/strong>\u00a0is best known for social dramas like her Golden Leopard-winning debut,\u00a0Skin of Man, Heart of Beast<\/em>(1999), her films are remarkably eclectic.\u00a0The Red Knight<\/em>\u00a0(2003) is a medieval fantasy starring Daniel Auteuil as an immortal knight on a mission for the Pope. Her 2007 Art\u00e9 documentary \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0H\u00f4tel des longues peines<\/em>\u00a0examined the lives of women whose men are serving time in prison.\u00a0Forbidden House<\/em>\u00a0(2011) slyly combines elements of psychological horror and ghost story.\u00a0 Angel was looking for a more immersive approach with\u00a0Elementary<\/em><\/strong>. She spent two years in a grade school researching that universe. Angel wrote the screenplay with Yann Coridian, in collaboration with Agn\u00e8s de Sacy and\u00a0Chocolat<\/em>\u00a0co-writer Olivier Gorce.<\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517960641829{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] ELEMENTARY\/ Primaire [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517963046942{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]West Coast Premiere \u2022 Drama, Comedy \u2022 France, 2016 DCP \u2022 1.85 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 105 min Directed by: H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Angel Written by: H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Angel, Yann Coridian, Agn\u00e8s de Sacy, Olivier Gorce Cinematography: Yves Angelo Film Editing: Sylvie Lager, Yann […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":628,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1198","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26407,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1198\/revisions\/26407"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}