{"id":1371,"date":"2018-02-10T00:34:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T00:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=1371"},"modified":"2021-03-08T20:20:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:20:04","slug":"once-in-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/2022-winners\/2015-awards\/once-in-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"ONCE IN A LIFETIME"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ONCE IN A LIFETIME \/<\/strong>\u00a0Les H\u00e9ritiers<\/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_1518222793586{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]West Coast Premiere \u2022 Drama \u2022 France, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

DCP \u2022 2.35 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 105 min<\/p>\n

Directed by<\/strong>: Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
\nWritten by<\/strong>: Ahmed Drame, Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
\nCinematography<\/strong>: Myriam Vinocour
\nFilm Editing<\/strong>: Benoit Quinon
\nOriginal Score<\/strong>: Ludovico Einaudi
\nProduced by<\/strong>: Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, Pierre Kubel (Loma Nasha Films)
\nCoproduced by<\/strong>: \u00a0Vendredi Film, TF1 Droits Audiovisuels, UGC, France 2 Cinema, Orange Studio
\nCast<\/strong>: Ariane Ascaride (Anne Gueguen), Ahmed Dram\u00e9 (Malik), No\u00e9mie Merlant (M\u00e9lanie), Genevieve Mnich (Yvette), St\u00e9phane Bak (Max)
\nInternational Sales<\/strong>: TF1 International<\/p>\n

At the Leon Blum High School, history teacher Anne Gueguen has to face her worst nightmare, a classroom full of distracted and unruly school \u201crejects\u201d \u2013 the ones other teachers have given up on. This racially and religiously diverse group of struggling but tough inner-city kids seem to only agree on one thing: history is a boring subject with no relevance in their everyday lives.\u00a0 Anne has a quality that these students don\u2019t encounter often \u2013 she actually cares about them, and she has an idea that she hopes will inspire them.\u00a0 Over the objections of the head of the school, she challenges the class to enter a national history contest with a project on Children and Teenage victims of the Nazi Regime. It\u2019s a long shot at best, because the contest is usually won by more dedicated students from better schools, but a visit from a special guest gives them a fighting chance. Based on a true story, this inspirational drama was co-written by twenty-one year old Ahmed Dram\u00e9, who was part of the original class, and plays Malik in the film.<\/p>\n

When Ahmed Dram\u00e9 told his story to writer\/director\u00a0Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar<\/strong>, she liked it so much she decided to work with him to develop the screenplay. Known for her previous film, the comedy\u00a0Bowling<\/em>(2012), co-written with Jean-Marie Duprez, Mention-Schaar wanted to bring a more heartfelt, documentary style authenticity to her third feature, so she shot the film in actual classrooms with a mix of amateur and professional actors. To lend an air of natural authority to the portrayal of the real life teacher Anne Angles, Mention-Schaar cast actress Ariane Ascaride, who won a Best Actress C\u00e9sar Award playing the pugnacious Jeanette in\u00a0Marius and Jeanette<\/em>\u00a0(1998). The film sharply criticizes the education system while showing that dedicated teachers can make a difference. Mention-Schaar was an established producer before she directed her feature debut,\u00a0Ma premi\u00e8re fois<\/em>, in 2012, which was nominated for a Best First Film C\u00e9sar Award.<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026vibrates with genuine emotion.\u201d
\n\u2013 Judith Prescott FRENCH CINEMA REVIEW<\/p>\n

\u201cA beautiful story with the remarkable Ariane Ascaride.\u201d
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[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518222678980{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] ONCE IN A LIFETIME \/\u00a0Les H\u00e9ritiers [\/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_1518222793586{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]West Coast Premiere \u2022 Drama \u2022 France, 2014 DCP \u2022 2.35 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 105 min Directed by: Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar Written by: Ahmed Drame, Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar Cinematography: Myriam Vinocour Film Editing: Benoit Quinon Original Score: Ludovico […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":660,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1371","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371","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=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371\/revisions\/1373"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}