If you loved Patients, try La vida escolar
Un puente entre una película que ya has visto y una que casi nadie ha cruzado. Esto es lo que comparten, y lo que la segunda hace que la primera no hace.
Lo que comparten
Both films are directed by Grand Corps Malade, Mehdi Idir, and they both carry the bittersweet, outsider, tender mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Patients, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What La vida escolar is
Apparently, good intentions can be a full-time job. A school counselor works with disadvantaged students in a tough Paris neighborhood. It all goes about as smoothly as adolescence itself.

