The Best Job in the World
Synopsis
So 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.
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Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Film Par Film
- Co-productions : DD Productions, TF1 Films Production, Societé d'Exploitation et de Distribution de Films (SEDIF), Orly Films, Prima
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : AMLF
Full credits (19)
- Executive Producer : Jean-Louis Livi
- Assistant Director : Jérôme Navarro
- Sound Recordist : Pierre Befve
- Line Producer : Bernard Marescot
- Screenwriter : Gérard Lauzier
- Co-producers : Gérard Depardieu, Raphaël Berdugo
- Director of Photography : Jean-Yves Le Mener
- Sound Assistant : Jacques Ballay
- Assistant Operators : Dominique Delguste, Sébastien Pentecouteau
- Camera Operator : Yves Agostini
- Production Manager : Marc Vade
- Editor : Georges Klotz
- Sound editors : Élisabeth Paquotte, Stéphanie Granel
- Production Designer : Christian Marti
- Music Composer : Vladimir Cosma
- Costume designers : Gil Noir, Marpessa Djian
- Sales Agent : Raphaël Berdugo
- Sound Mixer : Gérard Lamps
- Still Photographer : Arnaud Borrel
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Themes : Education
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- 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
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SR
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"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)
