What age is A Great Friend (Les Choses simples) appropriate for?

8 alone, 7 with a parent; 8 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is A Great Friend (Les Choses simples) not recommended under 8?

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

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A Great Friend (Les Choses simples): what age is it for? 8 alone, 7 with a parent

8 alone, 7 with a parent.

Movie · 2023 · 1 h 35 · comedy

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The trailer

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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralone

Alone from 8; from 7, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.

In France, zinema would say 8.

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What it's about

Vincent is a famous successful entrepreneur. One day, a car breakdown on a mountain road temporarily interrupts his frantic lifestyle. Pierre, who lives apart from the modern world in the middle of sublime nature, comes to his aid and offers him his hospitality. The meeting between these two men, who are opposites will upset their respective beliefs and they will find themselves laughing. The question is...deep down, are they really each living the lives they want to live?

Why 8

Our readingA mountain comedy, lots of cigarettes and nothing that weighs: eight, seven with an adult.
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A hermit and a bossA hurried entrepreneur breaks down in the mountains and is taken in by a man who lives with nothing; log fires, a hunting rifle, deaths spoken of, and above all a great many cigarettes.
The restBeer and wine, a few arguments; nothing worrying.

What the movie brings

Two ways of living, speed and slowness, and the film does not fully choose.
The mountains as a set and a lesson, for a child who has never chopped wood.
Lambert Wilson and Grégory Gadebois, a duo that makes you laugh without meanness.

Watching it together

Before

Nothing to prepare.

After

at 8 and up

Pierre lives without a phone or money: what is he missing, and what is Vincent missing?

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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