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LEARN BY HEART (LA VIE EN GRAND) (Past Film)
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Completed - FRENCH - Drama - 96 minutes

Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : Mathieu VADEPIED
Cast : Balamine GUIRASSY, Ali BIDANESSY, Guillaume GOUIX, Joséphine DE MEAUX

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?

Production

Country(ies) : FRANCE

BELGIUM Nov 18, 2015 CINÉART BELGIUM
FRANCE Nov 18, 2015 DOGMA FILMS


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