The Best Job in the WorldDirected by Gérard Lauzier
Produced by F Comme Film
Genres : Fiction - Runtime : 1 h 45 min
French release : 11/12/1996
Production year : 1996
DirectorActorsSynopsisSo as to be near his children after his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history/geography teacher in a quiet provincial secondary school, takes a job in a "problem" school in the Paris suburbs. When he starts in after the holidays he's given the "Fourth-Technical" the school's toughest class and the only accomodation on the particularly difficult "Mûriers" estate ! His existence becomes a veritable assault course for which his history/geography degree had little prepared him. About"I was determined to give this comedy set in the suburbs an optimistic ending. That didn't go down well. Unlikely, I was told, unrealistic, hackneyed, commercial, American-style happy ending and others. The future is necessary bleak, with the famous "suburban explosion" to cap it all. In the past, we weren't supposed to demoralize the working-class neighbourhoods, but today it's right to demoralize the immigrant neighbourhoods. Optimism is incongruous, old-fashioned and politically suspect in today's France. This is all the more surprising since France, compared to the rest of the world, isn't doing that badly, whatever people may say."
(Gérard Lauzier) Production and distributionAssociate production company : F Comme Film
Co-production : DD Productions, TF1 Films Production, Societé d'Exploitation et de Distribution de Films (SEDIF), Orly Films, Prima
French distribution : Pathé Distribution
Full creditsExecutive Producer : Jean-Louis Livi
Screenwriter : Gérard Lauzier
Director of Photography : Jean-Yves Le Mener
Sound Recordist : Pierre Befve
Editor : Georges Klotz
Production Designer : Christian Marti
Music Composer : Vladimir Cosma
Costume Designers : Gil Noir, Marpessa Djian
Sales Agent : Raphaël Berdugo
Still Photographer : Arnaud Borrel
Technical detailsFeature film
Genres : Fiction
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French (France)
Production year : 1996
French release : 11/12/1996
Runtime : 1 h 45 min
Current status : Released
Visa number : 89.074
Visa issue date : 10/12/1996
Approval : Yes
Production formats :
35mm
Screening format :
35mm
Color type : Color
Aspect ratio : 1.85
Sound format : Dolby SR
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