Etienne
The film is based on a novel by Anna Gavalda, and adapted for the small screen by M. Langlois and Veronique Lecharpy. The idea that a formal academic school program is traditionally seen as the way for young minds to be formed and molded, yet how many children that are deemed failures by the same system go on to make names for themselves as they discover fields and subjects not taught by the educational establishment world-wide.
Bobby
Na vila de Timpelbach, as crianças afrontam os adultos e todas as formas de autoridade. Impotentes, os adultos decidem abandonar a vila, deixando-os a imaginar que todos partiram numa viagem. Quando as crianças se dão conta de que não existe um só adulto na vila, eles tomam conta de tudo, fazendo suas próprias leis. Mas existe algo com o que eles não contavam...
Paul Pagnol à 8 ans
The story takes us from the dear Garrigue to the secondary school where Marcel is first ill at ease because he is a scholarship holder and because he went to the grade school (the other bourgeois pupils had probably a private tutor). A fight against a rich kid ,that augurs badly for what is to follow. (to be followed in "Le Temps des Amours" )
