What age is Final Set (5ème Set) appropriate for?

9 alone, 8 with a parent; 9 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is Final Set (5ème Set) not recommended under 9?

What's in it: our reading; a body giving out; the rest. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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Final Set (5ème Set): what age is it for? 9 alone, 8 with a parent

9 alone, 8 with a parent.

Movie · 2021 · 1 h 53 · drama

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The trailer

Alone, or with you

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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralone

Alone from 9; from 8, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.

In France, zinema would say 9.

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What it's about

Thomas was once renowned as a young tennis prodigy, but never had the career he hoped for. At 37, despite his declining physical fitness and shattered knee he decides to compete in the intense qualifying rounds of the French Open at Roland-Garros for one last attempt at glory. Although his wife Eve and mother Judith advise him to give up, Thomas obsessively pushes forward. He will have to fight his own demons and will ultimately face a determined young player who reminds him of his younger self.

Why 9

Our readingA thirty-eight-year-old tennis player playing through his injuries, some fifteen swear words: nine, eight with an adult.
reading
A body giving outA thirty-eight-year-old tennis player fights the young and his own injuries: knee, shoulder, treatments, injections, bleeding fingers. Nothing violent, a tired body filmed up close.
The restSome fifteen swear words, cigarettes, a mother who was his coach and no longer believes in him.

What the movie brings

What it costs to keep going when everyone has decided you failed.
Tennis filmed for real, point by point, with the pain inside.
A father who plays for his son, and a son who watches.

Watching it together

Before

Nothing to prepare; a child who loves tennis follows everything, the others drop out.

After

at 9 and up

Thomas keeps going when he is told to stop: who is he playing for, do you think?

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A zinema reading from September 19, 2026 · the whole movie, watched in full · the age by zinema's rules for the US and France, and a human reading · report an error · how this guide is made