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LA VIE EN GRAND

By Mathieu VADEPIED

Drama - Completed 2014

La Semaine de la Critique 2015

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Duration
- 96 mn
- Director(s)
- Mathieu VADEPIED
- Cast
- Balamine GUIRASSY, Ali BIDANESSY, Guillaume GOUIX, Joséphine DE MEAUX
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-085D-0000-C-0000-0000-1
- EIDR
- 10.5240/35EA-DEBD-2498-646D-B620-B
- Producer(s)
- Bruno NAHON (UNITE DE PRODUCTION), Caroline NATAF (UNITE DE PRODUCTION)
- Synopsis
- Adama lives alone with his blood mother in a run-down one-bedroom apartment in the projects. Separated from his six half-brothers and sisters, Adama
  has had to change neighbourhoods and middle schools. As he wonders why his father so seldom comes to see them and he watches his mother wear
  herself out on temp job night-shifts, his already low grades and participation at school plunge. When the police raid his new housing block for drugs and
  Mamadou, a sixth-grader he is supposed to be mentoring, discovers a block of hash, Adama locates an empty storage space in the basement of the
  middle school and improvises as a dealer. His main goal: to buy his mother a new washing machine.
  Along his way, Adama learns lessons in life, salesmanship, the world of adults... Will his lessons serve him well?