Les fautes d'orthographe (2004)
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Damien Jouillerot, Carole Bouquet, Olivier Gourmet, Raphaël Goldman
A privileged headmaster’s son tries to win his classmates’ friendship by secretly organizing a cooperative canteen.
The story
Fifteen-year-old Daniel Massu is a late bloomer and struggles with spelling, which causes him many problems. He attends a boarding school where his father is headmaster and his mother director of studies; the family lives in an apartment on the school grounds. This year, Daniel’s father decides that he must sleep in the dormitory with the other students. Already anxious because his classmates see him as privileged, Daniel tries to win their friendship by defying his parents and setting up a secret cooperative canteen to supply food to students and teachers without the administrators’ knowledge.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Fifteen-year-old Daniel Massu is a late bloomer, and he is poor at spelling, which causes him many problems. He is a student at a boarding school: his father is its headmaster and his mother its director of studies. The family lives in an apartment on the school grounds, but this year Daniel’s father decides that the teenager will sleep in the dormitory with the other students. Daniel is all the more terrified of sharing such close quarters because he knows how much his classmates regard him as privileged. To win their friendship, he takes on both his father and his mother, going so far as to organize a clandestine cooperative canteen that supplies food to students and teachers without the administrators’ knowledge. The discovery and condemnation of this cooperative sparks an almost general revolt among the students and teachers.
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