What age is The Teacher (Les Grands Esprits) 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 The Teacher (Les Grands Esprits) not recommended under 9?

What's in it: our reading; an elite teacher in a suburban school; the rest. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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The Teacher (Les Grands Esprits): what age is it for? 9 alone, 8 with a parent

9 alone, 8 with a parent.

Movie · 2017 · 1 h 46 · comedy, drama

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The trailer

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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

Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris. Trapped in a situation where he’s forced to accept a job in a school of a tough underprivileged suburb, he finds himself confronted to his own limits and to the upheaval of his values and certainties.

Why 9

Our readingAn elite Paris teacher in a suburban school, some twenty swear words: nine, eight with an adult.
reading
An elite teacher in a suburban schoolA literature teacher from a top Paris lycée transferred for a year to a tough middle school, rowdy pupils, a fight, a disciplinary hearing; some twenty swear words, hallway insults, a few cigarettes.
The restDeaths spoken of in a lesson on Les Misérables, a few innuendos, a prop gun in a drama class.

What the movie brings

A haughty teacher who discovers pupils smarter than his prejudices, and the film does not spare him.
Les Misérables read in a suburban school: enough to make you want to open it.
Denis Podalydès as a teacher you hate and then love.

Watching it together

Before

Nothing to prepare; talk afterwards about what a teacher owes his pupils.

After

at 9 and up

Foucault despises his pupils at first: what makes him see them differently?

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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