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THE HIGH LIFE

LA BELLE VIE

By Emmanuel SALINGER

Comedy - Completed 2009

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Comedy
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Director(s)
- Emmanuel SALINGER
- Writer(s)
- Emmanuel SALINGER
- Cast
- Laurent CAPPELUTO, Maurice BÉNICHOU, Michel BOUJENAH, Hélène FILILÈRES
- Producer(s)
- Yaël FOGIEL (Les Films du Poisson), Laetitia GONZALEZ (Les Films du Poisson)
- Synopsis
- hilosophy teacher in the provincial city of Saint-Étienne, Grégoire is a discreet man of integrity. He strives to instill the fundamentals of wisdom in his lethargic high-school students. Circumstances lead him to Paris where he encounters a new student in the shape of Patrick, a star TV presenter. Patrick’s career is on a high, but he’s not happy. He wants to learn, he wants to change, he wants Grégoire to be his life-coach. Grégoire is uneasy about the offer; he plays hard to get, but eventually gives in. He agrees to play the Socrates for the Alcibiades of the small screen. But the game of self-knowledge holds some surprises. Of these two men from very different worlds, who will end up teaching the real lessons?