What age is Battle of the Classes (La Lutte des classes) appropriate for?

10 alone, 9 with a parent; 10 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is Battle of the Classes (La Lutte des classes) not recommended under 10?

What's in it: nearly seventy swear words; a child alone at school; nothing shown. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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Battle of the Classes (La Lutte des classes): what age is it for? 10 alone, 9 with a parent

10 alone, 9 with a parent.

Movie · 2019 · 1 h 43 · comedy

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The trailer

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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralonethe sweet spot

Alone from 10; from 9, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.

The sweet spot: around 11-13, when you have seen friends change schools, and can hear parents argue about what is fair. Why a sweet spot?

In France, zinema would say 10.

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What it's about

As everyone knows, children make no difference between social classes, skin colors or religions. But then why does Corentin, Paul and Sofia's nine-year-old son, only have friends like him at Bagnolet's school? And when his friends all leave for a private school in Paris, his parents are frightened. From now on, Corentin is the only one in his class. But the only what?

Why 10

Nearly seventy swear wordsThe father, a musician, swears nonstop; two homophobic slurs in an argument, death threats thrown into the air. The language is the only real point of vigilance.
A child alone at schoolThe ten-year-old son finds himself the only one of his gang in a difficult class, gets shoved, lies to his parents; tears, a couple's argument violent in words.
Nothing shownA couple in bed, suggested; wine and joints mentioned between adults; a playground fight.

What the movie brings

A comedy about a real parents' question: state school, private school, and what you do with your ideas.
A child who sees his parents contradict themselves and asks the right questions.
Leïla Bekhti and Édouard Baer in a Michel Leclerc film, funny and honest.

Watching it together

Before

The language is crude from start to finish; say that it is the father's, not the household's.

After

at 10 and up

The parents want the state school but all the friends are leaving: what would you do in Corentin's place?

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